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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



THE LITURGY 




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Reformed Church in America 



to(;ethei{ with 



THE BOOK OF PSALMS, 



FOR USE IN 



Public Worship. 



Revised, and Reported to the General Synod, 1S73. 
Approved by the Classes, and Adopted, 1876, 187S. 
Rearranged and Published, 1882. 



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NEW YORK: 
BOARD OF PUBLICATION, R. C. A., 

34 VESEY STREET. 
1882. 



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Copyright, 1882. 
BOARD OF PUBLICATION 

OF THE 

REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA; 



CONTENTS. 



Resolved, That this Synod approve the 
edition of the Revised Liturgy, with appended 
Psalms, for refponsive reading, and recommend 
it for use in the churches. 

Min. Gen. Synod, page 158, June, 1882. 



V. The Administration of Baptism, . . 6: 
1. To Infants. 
11. To Adult Persons. 

VI. The Public Reception into Full Com- 
munion OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN 

Baptized in Infancy, . . . 70 



VII. The Administration of the Lord's Supper, 73 

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4 CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

VIII. Church Discipline, 85 

1. Excommunication. 

11. The Readmission of Excommunicated 
Persons. 

IX. Ordination, . . . . .94 
1. Of Ministers of God's Word. 
11. Of Elders and Deacons. 

X. The Installation of a Minister, . . in 

XI. The Laying of a Corner Stone, . . 119 

XII. The Dedication of a House of Worship, 124 

XIII. The Confirmation of Marriage, . . 130 



XIV. The Burial of the Dead, . . . 134 



PREFACE, 



IN the year 1868 the General Synod appointed a Com- 
mittee "to revise our Liturgy, so that it may more fully 
meet the wants of the Church." 

This Committee consisted of E. S. Porter, D.D., M. S. 
Hutton, D.D., J. B. Thompson, D.D., T. C. Strong, D.D., 
and the Rev. W. R. Duryee, and the Elders F. T. Fre- 
linghuysen and J. B. Jewett. 

In 1870 the Rev. Dr. Porter was released at his own 
request from the Committee, which was then increased by 
the addition of J. Elmendorf, D.D., and A. R. Thomp- 
son, D.D., and the Elder R. H. Pruyn. 

At the meeting of the General Synod, in 1873, this Com- 
mittee reported the Revision which they had made. 

The Report was accepted, but further action was post- 
poned until the following year, that the proposed Liturgy 
might be printed and submitted to the churches for their 
inspection. 

In 1874 the General Synod "approved of so much of the 
Revised Liturgy as is not inconsistent with, or forbidden by, 
the Constitution," and gave permission to use the same, 
" not sanctioning any change in the Baptismal Form, or the 
Form for the Administration of the Lord's Supper." 

In 1875 this action was reconsidered, on the ground that 
the Liturgy was a part of the Constitution, and could not be 
altered by a resolution of the General Synod, but only in 
accordance with the prescribed constitutional methods, after 
submitting the proposed changes to the several Classes for 
their approval. 

In 1876, two-thirds of the Classes having approved the 



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PREFACE. 



revised Form for the Confirmation of Marriage, the General 
Synod declared the same to be adopted. 

In 1878, two-thirds of the Classes having signified their 
approval of the Forms for the Public Reception into Full 
Communion of those who have been baptized in Infancy, the 
Installation of a Minister, the Laying of a Corner Stone, the 
Dedication of a House of Worship, the Burial of the Dead, 
and Prayers for Special Occasions, not hitherto forming a 
part of the Liturgy, the same were ordered to "be printed 
in connection with our Standards, not as authoritative and 
imperative Formulas, but as specimens, embodying the 
sense of the Church in reference to the most edifying mode 
of rendering these services.' 1 

The remaining Forms and the Order of Worship have 
long been a part of the Constitution of the Reformed 
Church, having been translated from the Liturgy of the 
Church of Holland, by the Rev. Dr. Livingston, in the latter 
part of the last century. 

The use of the Forms for the Administration of the Sac- 
raments, for Ordination, and for Discipline, and the observ- 
ance of the Order of Worship, are obligatory. {See Consti- 
tution, II., 11; X., 1, 2, 4; XIII., 11, 13.) 

With these exceptions, this Liturgy is not of binding 
authority, but it is set forth as a general expression of the 
manner in which the Public Worship of God should be con- 
ducted, and, in the words of the late Rev. Mancius S. Hutton, 
D.D., the chairman of the Committee through whose labors 
the Revised Liturgy was first prepared and presented to the 
Church, " with the hope that it will so commend itself to the 
piety and wisdom of the Church, that its increasing use will 
place us before the world in our true historic position as a 
spiritual Liturgical and Reformed Church." 

New Yoilk, 1882. 



Order of Scripture Lessons. 



HISTORICAL NOTE. 

The Synod of Dort, A. D. 1618, in its Rules of Church 
Government [which " were recognized and expressly adopt- 
ed" by the Reformed Dutch Church in America, in 
Convention, New York, October, A. D. 177 1], decreed as 
follows : 

"Art. 67. — Besides the Sabbath day, the Churches shall 
likewise observe Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, with 
the day succeeding each; and whereas, in most of the 
cities and provinces of the Netherlands, it is, moreover, 
customary to observe the day of the Circumcision and As- 
cension of our Lord, the Ministers, where such practice has 
net been adopted, shall endeavor to prevail with the civil 
authority to establish a conformity with the other Churches." 

This article bears witness to the ancient usage of our 
Church. The evident design of that usage was to bring 
into devout remembrance, year by year, the vital facts of 
the Advent, Death, and Resurrection of Our Blessed Lord, 
and of the Mission of the Holy Comforter. Thereto this 
Order of Scripture Lessons is adjusted, with the hope that 
if any, in the exercise of Christian liberty, shall use it, such 
use may be found to edification. 



LITURGY. 



SEASON OF THE ADVENT OF OUR LORD. 

(CHRISTMAS.) 

The Order of Lessons for the Christmas Season begins with the fourth Sunday 
before Christmas. 



4 Sun. before Christmas.. 
3 " 



Christmas (Dec. 25) 

Circumcision (Jan. 1) 

1 Sun. after Christmas. . . . 



7 

8 4 



OLD TEST. 

Isaiah, 1.... 

5-.. 
" 25 . . . 

" 30- 
" 60.... 

Gen. 17:1-10. 

Isaiah, 35 

44 41.... 
4 44.... 

l ' 5 1 

44 54.... 

" S7-v- 
44 61.... 
" 65.... 



NEW TEST. 

Luke, 1:1-38. . 

" 1:39-56 
44 3:1-18.. 

Matt., 3:1-12., 
Luke, 2:7-20. . 
44 2:21-24. 
" 2:25-52. 
Matt., 2:1-12. , 
Mark, 1:1-15. . 
John, 1:15-28. 
Matt., 4:1-11. . 
Luke, 4:14-32. 

Matt., 5 

4 6 



OLD TEST. 

Isaiah, 2.... 

Malachi, 3 

Isaiah, 28:1-22. 
14 32.... 
9:1-7.. 
Deut., 10:12-22 
Isaiah, 40.... 

42.... 
45... . 
52:1-12. 

55-- 
59.... 
62.... 
66.... 



NEW TEST. 

Romans, 10 



1 Corinth., 1 
John, 1:1-14 
Coloss., 2 
1 Corinth, 2 
Heb., 2 



1 Cor., 



2 Cor., 



Galat.. 



The Lessons for the Sundays after Christmas are intended to be used until the ninth 
Sunday before Easter, and no further. 



SCRIPTURE LESSONS. 



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II. 

SEASON OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF OUR 

LORD. 

(EASTER.) 

The Order of Lessons for the Easter Season begins with the ninth Sunday before 
Easter. Easter Sunday, corresponding- to the time of the Jewish Passover, is the Sun- 
day next after the full moon that follows the 21st of March ; and if the full moon hap- 
pen on a Sunday, it is the Sunday after. Ascension Day is forty days after Easter. 



DAY. 


MORNING. 


EVENING. 




OLD TEST. 


NEW TEST. 


OLD TEST. 


NEW TEST. 




9 Sunday before Easter. . . 


Jerem., 5.... 


Matt., 7 


Jerem., 22. . . . 


Ephesians, 


1 




11 25 ... . 


Luke, 7:1— 18 . . 




u 






Lam., 1 . . . . 


Mark, 6:1-29. . 


Lam., 3;i~36. . 




3 




Jerem. , 7 . . . . 


Matt., 10 


Jerem., 9 




4 




Ezek., 14 


Luke, 10:1-24. 


Ezek., 18 




5 




11 20:1-26.. 


Mark, 9:1-29. . 


11 20:27-49. 




6 




Micah, 6 


Luke, 19:1-27. 


Habakk.,3 


Philippians, 


1 


■ 


Haggai, 2:1-9. 


" 21.... 


Zech., 13 




3 




Dan., 9:4-27. . 


11 19:29-48. 


Malachi, 4. . . . 


Hebrews, 


5 




Gen., 22:1-19 . 


John, 19.... 


Isaiah, 53 


Philippians, 


2 




Exod., 12:1-36 


" 20 


" 25.... 


Romans, 


6 


1 Sunday after Easter 


Isaiah, 43 


Acts, 1 . . • • 


48.... 


1 Cor., 15:1- 


28 




Hosea, 13 


3.... 


Hosea, 14 


Colossians, 


1 





Joel, 3:1-3 


" 5:17-42. 


Micah, 4 




3 


4 " • 




6.... 


Nahum, 1 


1 Thess., 








" 8:14-40. 
Luke, 24:44-53. 


Zech., 10 

2 Kings, 2 


Eph., 4:1- 


3 
4 
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LITURGY. 



III. 

SEASON OF THE MISSION OF THE HOLY COMFORTER. 

(PENTECOST OR WHITSUNTIDE.) 

The Order of Lessons for the Season of Pentecost begins with the Sunday before 
Pentecost. Pentecost, or Whitsuntide, is the seventh Sunday after Easter. 



DAY. 


MORNING. 


EVENING. 




OLD TEST. 


NEW 


TEST. 


OLD TEST. 


NEW TEST. 


i Sunday before Pentecost 


Joel, 2... 


John, 


17.... 


Zeph., 3.... 


2 Thess., 


3 




Deut., 16:1-17. 


Acts, 


2:1-36. 


Isaiah, 11 


Acts, 4:1-31 


Pentecost, i Sunday after. 


Genesis, 1. . . . 


Matt., 3:10-17. 


Genesis, 2 


1 John, 


5 




" 3--- 


Acts, 


9:1-31. 


6.... 


1 Tim., 


6 


" 3 


" 9:1-19.. 




IO. . . . 




2 Tim., 


2 


" 4 


37- - •• 




II. . . . 


42.... 




3 


U 5 


" 43-- •• 




14.... 


" 45--«- 


Titus, 


2 


" 6 


49.... 




15.... 


50.... 


Hebrews, 


10 




Exodus, 3 




17.... 


Exodus, 5 




11 


" 8 


a 9.... 




20. . . . 


" 10.... 




12 


" 9 


14.... 




24.... 


15.... 




13 


u IO 


Numb., 16 




26 — 


Numb., 22. . . . 


James, 


1 




23.... 




28.... 


24.... 




2 




Deut., 4:1-40. 


Matt., 


18. .. 


Deut., 5 




5 


" *3 


6.... 




20. . . . 


7.... 




4 


" 14 


8.... 




23.... 


9.... 


u 


5 


" 15 


" 33-- 




25.... 


34--«- 


1 Peter, 


1 


" 16 


Joshua, 23.. . . 


Mark, 


4.... 


Joshua, 24. . . . 




2 


41 17 


Judges, 4.... 




13.... 


Judges, 5 


u 


3 




1 Sam., 12.... 


Luke, 


13.... 


1 Sam., 17. . . . 


(( 


4 




2 Sam., 12 




15.... 


2 Sam., 19.... 




5 




1 Kings, 8:1-21 




20 


1 K'gs, 8:22-53 


2 Peter, 


1 




" 17.... 


John, 


3.... 


18.... 


•t 


2 




2 Kings, 5 




7.... 


2 Kings, 1 9 


a 


3 


11 23 


Daniel, 6 




8.... 


Daniel, 7.... 


1 John, 


1 


M 24 


Proverbs, 1 




9.... 


Prov., 2 




2 




3.... 




10. . . . 


8.... 


u 


3 




" 11.... 




11. . . . 


" 12.... 


Jude. 






13.... 




15.... 


14.... 


Rev., 


1 


" 28 


" 15 




16.... 


16.... 




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The Lessons for the Sundays after Pentecost are to be used until the fourth Sunday 
before Christmas, and no further. 



MORNING SERVICE 



II 



II. 

Order of Public Worship. 



LORD'S DAY MORNING. 
I. 

INVOCATION. 

It is recommended that the Invocation be concluded with the Lord's Prayer, and 
that the People unite audibly in the Lord's Prayer whenever used, and in the 
Amen at the close of every prayer in Public Worship. 

Our Father which art ix heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name: Thy kingdom come ; Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven i 
Give us this day our daily bread : and for- 
give US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS; 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and 
the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen. 

II. 

SALUTATION. 

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our 
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

i Cor. i : 3. 



12 LITURGY. 

I Or this : 

Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, 
and Christ Jesus our Lord. 

2 Tim. i : 2. 

II Or this : 

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you, through 
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. 

2 Peter, i : 2. 

IF Or this : 

May God, Who commanded the light to shine out 
of darkness, shine in your hearts, to give the light of 
the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of 
Jesus Christ. 

2 Cor. iv : 6. 

III. 

READING OF SCRIPTURE. 

I.— THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

Hear the law of God as it is written in the 20th chapter of the Book 

of Exodus. 

And GOD spake all these words, saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

I. 

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 

II. 

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, 
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, 



MORNING SERVICE. 



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or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the wa- 
ter under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thy_ 
self to them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy 
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the 
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth 
generation of them that hate Me; and showing 
mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and 
keep My commandments. 

III. 

Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy 
God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guilt- 
less that taketh His Name in vain. 

IV. 

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six 
days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work : but the 
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in 
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-serv- 
ant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within 
thy gates : for in six days the Lord made heaven 
and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rest- 
ed the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed 
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

v. 

Honor thy father and thy mother : that thy days 
may be long upon the land which the Lord thy 
God giveth thee. 



14 LITURGY. 

VI. 

Thou shalt not kill. 



VII. 

Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

VIII. 

Thou shalt not steal. 

IX. 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
neighbor. 

x. 

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man- 
servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his 
ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. 



Hear also the Summary of the Law by our Lord Jesus Christ, as it is 
written in the Gospel according to Matthew, xxii : 37-40. 

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 
This is the first and great commandment. And 
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments 
hang all the law and the prophets. 



After the reading of the Law a suitable Response may be sung. 



MORNING SERVICE. 1 5 

II. — READING OF SCRIPTURE LESSONS. 

If desired, one of the Lessons may consist of a portion from the Psalms, read 

responsively by the Minister and People. 
After either or both of the Lessons, a Gloria or Chant may be sung. 

IV. 
SINGING. 

V. 

PRAYER. 

This will ordinarily be free. But if desirable, the Litany, which is a literal 
translation from the Reformer Bucer's " Reformation of Doctrine and Wor- 
ship," or any of the Prayers for Special Occasions, which will be found on 
pages 22- , may be used. 

VI. 
SINGING. 

VII. 
SERMON. 

VIII. 
PRAYER. 

IX. 

OFFERINGS TO THE LORD. 

The Offerings are sometimes presented either before or after the Hyma preced- 
ing the Sermon. 



x. 

SINGING. 



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LITURGY. 



XL 

BENEDICTION. 

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love 
of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be 
with you all. Amen. 

2 Cor. xiii : 14. 

IF Or this : 

Now the God of peace, that brought again from 
the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of 
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 
Covenant, make you perfect in every good work to 
do His will, working in you that which is well 
pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ : to Whom 
be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 

Hebrews, xiii : 20, 21. 

1 Or this : 

The Lord bless thee and keep thee. 

The Lord make His face to shine upon thee 
and be gracious unto thee. 

The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, 
and give thee peace. 

Numbers, vi : 24, 26. 



The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you 
all. Amen. 

Romans, xvi : 24 



EVENING SERVICE. 



17 



LORD'S DAY EVENING. 
1. 

INVOCATION. 

It is recommended that the Invocation be concluded with the Lord's Prayer, and 
that the People unite audibly in the Lord's Prayer whenever used, and in the 
Amen at the close of every Prayer in Public Worship. 

Our Father which art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name : Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread: and forgive us 
our debts, as w t e forgive our debtors : and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and 
the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen. 

II. 

SALUTATION. 

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our 
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

1 Cor. i : 3. 

IF Or this: 

Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father 
and Christ Jesus our Lord. 

2 Tim. i : 2. 



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1 Or this : 



Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through 
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. 

Peter, i : 2. 

t Or this : 

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be 
multiplied. 

Jude, 2. 

III. 

READING OF SCRIPTURE. 

If desired, one of the Lessons may consist of a portion from the Psalms, read re- 

sponsively by the Minister and People. 
After either or both of the Lessons a Gloria or Chant may be sung. 



IV. 
SINGING. 



This may be followed by repeating the Creed, according to the ancient custom of 
our Church, the People standing, and repeating audibly with the Minister. 

THE APOSTLES' CREED. 



I believe in God the Father Almighty, 
Maker of heaven and earth; 

And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son our 
Lord ; Who was conceived bY the Holy 
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered 
under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, 
and buried ; he descended into hell ; the 
third day He rose again from the dead ; He 
ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the 



EVENING SERVICE. I 9 

RIGHT HAND OF GoD THE FATHER ALMIGtfTY ;• 

from thence he shall come to judge the 
quick and the dead. 

i believe in the holy ghost ; the holy 
Catholic Church, the communion of saints; 
the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of 
the body ; and the life everlasting. amen. 



THE CONFESSION OF FAITH. 

COMPOSED IN THE COUNCIL OF NICE, A. 1). 325. 

We believe in one God, the Father Al- 
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of 
all things visible and invisible ; 

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only 
Begotten Son of God, begotten of His Fa- 
ther, BEFORE ALL WORLDS ; GOD, OF GOD, LIGHT, 

of Light, very God, of very God ; begotten, 
not made, being of one substance with the 
Father, by Whom all things were made : 
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came 
down from heaven, and was incarnate by the 
Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary ; and was 
made Man ; and was crucified also for us un- 
der Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was 

BURIED ; AND THE THIRD DAY He ROSE AGAIN AC- 
CORDING to the Scriptures ; and ascended into 
heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of 
the Father. And He shall come again, with 
glory, to judge both the quick and the dead: 
Whose kingdom shall have no end. 
And in the Holy Ghost, Who spake by the 



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LITURGY. 



prophets. And one holy Catholic and Apos- 
tolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism 
for the remission of sins; and we look for 
the resurrection of the dead, and the life of 
the world to come. Amen. 

V. 

PRAYER. 

This will ordinarily be free. But if desired, the Litany, or any of the Prayers for 
Special Occasions, which will be found on pages 22- , , may be used. 



VI. 

SINGING. 

VII. 
SERMON. 



VIII. 
PRAYER. 



IX. 

OFFERINGS TO THE LORD. 

The Offerings are sometimes presented either before or after the Hymn pre« 
ceding the Sefmon, 



X. 

SINGING, WITH THE DOXOLOGY. 



EVENING SERVICE. 



2 r 



XL 

BENEDICTION. 

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love 
of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be 
with you all. Amen. 

2 Cor, xiii : 24. 

T Or This: 

Now the God of peace, that brought again from 
the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of 
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 
Covenant, make you perfect in every good work 
to do His will, working in you that which is well 
pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to 
Whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 

Hebrews, xiii : 20, 21. 

1 Or This : 

THE LORD bless thee and keep thee. 

THE LORD make His face to shine upon thee, 
and be gracious unto thee. 

The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and 
give thee peace. 

Numbers, vi : 24-26. 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you 
all. Amen. 

Romans, xvi : 24. 



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LITURGY. 



III. 

Prayers for Special Occasions. 



THE LITANY. 

O God the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon 
us. 

O God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have 
mercy upon us. 

O God the Holy Ghost, 

Have mercy upon us. 

Be merciful unto us, and spare us, O Lord. 

Be merciful unto us, and deliver us, O Lord. 

From all sin, from all error, from all evil, from 
the wiles of the devil, deliver us, O Lord. 

From dying suddenly and unprepared ; from 
pestilence and famine, from war and slaughter, 
from sedition and conspiracy, from lightning and 
tempest, from everlasting death, deliver us, O Lord. 

By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation, by Thy 
holy Nativity, by Thy Baptism, Fasting, and Temp- 
tations, deliver us, O Lord. 

By Thine Agony and bloody Sweat, by Thy 
Cross and Passion, by Thy Death and Burial, by 
Thy Resurrection and Ascension, by the coming of 
the Holy Ghost the Comforter, deliver us, O Lord. 



PRAYERS. 



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In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our 
felicity, in the hour of death, in the day of judg- 
ment, 

Deliver us, 0 Lord. 

We sinners beseech Thee to hear us : 

That it may please Thee to rule and govern Thy 
Holy Church Universal. 

That it may please Thee to preserve in sound- 
ness of word and holiness of life, all pastors and 
ministers of Thy Church. 

That it may please Thee to remove all sects and 
scandals. 

That it may please Thee to bring back into the 
way of truth all such as wander and have been led 
astray. 

That it may please Thee to crush Satan under 
our feet. 

That it may please Thee to send forth faithful 
laborers into Thy harvest. 

That it may please Tttee to grant the increase of 
Thy Word and the fruit of Thy Spirit unto all that 
hear. 

That it may please Thee to raise the fallen, and 
strengthen those that stand. 

That it may please Thee to console the weak- 
hearted, and succor the tempted. 

That it may please Thee to give peace and con- 
cord unto all rulers and governors. 

That it may please Thee to guide and protect 
our Chief Magistrate, with all his counsellors. 

That it may please Thee to bless and preserve 
our people, and all in authority among us. 

That it may please Thee to look upon the 



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LITURGY. 



afflicted, and those that are in danger ; and to com- 
fort them. 

That it may please Thee to succor all women in 
the perils of child-birth. 

That it may please Thee to cherish and protect 
young children and sick persons. 

That it may please Thee to defend and suitably 
provide for the orphans and v/idows. 

That it may please Thee to grant freedom unto 
captives. 

That it may please Thee to have mercy upon all 
men. 

That it may please Thee to forgive our enemies, 
persecutors, and slanderers, and to convert them. 

That it may please Thee to give and preserve 
the fruits of the earth. 

That it may please Thee to grant all these our 
requests. 

We beseech Thee to hear us. 

Lamb of God, who takest away the sin of the 
world, 

Have mercy upon us. 

Lamb of God, who takest away the sin of the 
world, 
Grant us Thy peace. 

Lord, deal not with us after our sins, neither 
reward us according to our iniquities. 

O God, Merciful Father, who despisest not the 
groans of the contrite, nor rejectest the desire of 
the sorrowful : be favorable to our prayers, which, 
in our afflictions that continually oppress us, we 
pour out before Thee ; and graciously hear them ; 
that those things which the craft of the devil or of 



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man worketh against us, may be brought to naught, 
and by the counsel of Thy goodness be scattered ; 
that being hurt by no persecutions, we may ever 
give thanks unto Thee in Thy holy Church : through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. 

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good 
counsels, and all just works proceed : Give unto 
Thy servants that peace which the world cannot 
give ; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy 
commandments, and also that we, being defended 
from the fear of our enemies, may by Thy protec- 
tion pass our time in rest and quietness : Through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

A PRAYER ON THE LORD'S DAY, BEFORE SERMON. 

O ETERNAL God, and most merciful Father, we 
humbly prostrate ourselves before Thy high ma- 
jesty, against which we have so often and grievously 
offended ; and acknowledge, if Thou shouldst enter 
into judgment with us, that we have deserved noth- 
ing but eternal death : for besides that we all are, by 
original sin, unclean in Thy sight and children of 
wrath, conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity, 
whereby all manner of evil lusts, striving against 
Thee and our neighbor, dwell within us ; we have 
also indeed, frequently and without end, transgressed 
Thy precepts, neglected what Thou hast commanded 
us, and done what Thou hast expressly forbidden 
us. We have strayed like sheep, and have greatly 
offended against Thee, which we acknowledge, and 
are heartily sorry for ; nay, we confess to our shame, 
and to the praise of Thy mercy towards us, that our 



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sins are more than the hairs of our head, and that we 
are indebted ten thousand talents, but not able to 
pay. Wherefore we are not worthy to be called Thy 
children ; nor to lift up our eyes towards heaven, to 
pour out our prayers before Thee. 

Nevertheless, O Lord God, and merciful Father, 
knowing that Thou dost not desire the death of a 
sinner, but that he may turn from his wickedness 
and live ; and that Thy mercy is infinite, which Thou 
showest unto those who return to Thee ; we heartily 
call upon Thee, trusting in our Mediator Jesus Christ, 
who is that Lamb of God that taketh away the sins 
of the world, and we beseech Thee, to commiserate 
our infirmity, forgiving us all our sins for Christ's 
sake. 

Wash us in the pure fountain of His blood, that 
we may become clean and white as snow. Cover our 
nakedness with His innocence and righteousness, for 
the glory of Thy Name s sake : clear our understand- 
ing of all blindness, and our hearts of all hardness 
and pride. 

Open the mouth of Thy servant at present, and 
replenish him with Thy wisdom and knowledge, that 
he may purely and confidently set forth Thy Word ; 
prepare also our hearts that we may hear, under- 
stand, and keep the same : write Thy laws, according 
to Thy promise in the tables of our hearts, and 
strengthen us to delight and walk in the same, to 
the praise and glory of Thy Name, and to the edifi- 
cation of Thy Church. O gracious Father, we ask 
for, and desire all these things in the name of Jesus 
Christ, who hath taught us to pray: OUR FATHER, 
etc. 



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A PRAYER BEFORE SERMON. 

HEAVENLY Father, eternal and merciful God, we 
acknowledge and confess before Thy divine majesty, 
that we are poor miserable sinners, conceived in sin, 
and born in iniquity, prone to all evil, unfit for any 
good ; and that, by our sinful life, we continually 
transgress Thy holy commandments, whereby we 
provoke Thine anger against us, and according to Thy 
righteous judgment, expose ourselves unto eternal 
damnation. But, O Lord, we repent and are sorry 
that we have offended Thee ; we bewail our trans- 
gressions, beseeching that Thou wilt graciously pity 
our misery. Have compassion on us, O most boun- 
teous God and Father, and forgive us all our sins, 
for that holy passion of Thy well-beloved Son Jesus 
Christ. Grant us also the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, 
that we may, with all our hearts, study to know our 
own unrighteousness, and sincerely abhor ourselves ; 
that sin may be mortified in us, and we may be raised 
up to a new life ; that we may bring forth genuine 
fruits of holiness, and righteousness, which through 
Jesus Christ are acceptable to Thee. Give us to under- 
stand Thy holy Word according to Thy divine will, 
that we may learn thereby to put our whole trust in 
Thee alone, and withdraw it from all creatures ; that 
also our old man, with all the affections thereof, may 
be daily more and more crucified ; and that we may 
offer up ourselves unto Thee a living sacrifice, to the 
glory of Thy holy Name, and to the edification of 
our neighbors ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who 
hath taught and commanded us to pray: OUR 
Father, etc. 



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A PRAYER AFTER SERMON. 

.LORD God Almighty, let not Thy holy Name be 
profaned for our sins, for we have divers ways sinned 
against Thee, since we are not obedient to Thy holy 
Word, as we ought to be, and through ignorance and 
murmuring daily stir up Thine anger against us ; 
wherefore Thou dost justly punish us ; but, O Lord, 
be mindful of Thy great mercy, and have compassion 
on us. Give us knowledge of, and repentance for 
our sins, and amendment of our lives. Strengthen 
the ministers of Thy Church, that they may faithfully 
and steadfastly declare Thy holy Word; and the 
magistrates of Thy people, that they may bear the 
sword with equity and prudence. Preserve us from 
all deceit and unfaithfulness. Confound all evil and 
subtile counsels taken against Thy Word and Church. 
O Lord, withhold not from us Thy Spirit and Word, 
but grant us increase of faith ; and in all trouble 
and adversity, patience and constancy. Assist Thy 
Church ; deliver her from all affliction, derision and 
persecution. Strengthen also the weak and sorrow- 
ful of heart, and send us Thy peace, through Jesus 
Christ our Lord, who hath given us this sure promise : 
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask 
of the Father in my name, he will give it you ; and 
hath commanded us to pray: OUR FATHER, etc. 

A PRAYER BEFORE THE EXPLANATION OF THE 
CATECHISM. 

O HEAVENLY Father, Thy Word is perfect, con- 
verting the soul ; a sure testimony, making wise the 
simple, enlightening the eyes of the blind : and a 



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powerful means unto salvation, for all those who 
believe. And whereas we are not only blind by 
nature, but even incapable of doing any good : and 
also since Thou wilt help none but those who are of 
a broken and contrite heart ; we beseech Thee to 
enlighten our understanding with Thy Holy Spirit, 
and give us a meek heart, free from all haughtiness 
and carnal knowledge, that we, hearing Thy Word, 
may rightly understand it, and regulate our life 
accordingly. Be graciously pleased to convert ail 
those who still stray from Thy truth, that we may, 
together with them, unanimously serve Thee in 
true holiness and righteousness all the days of our 
life. 

We crave all these things for Christ's sake, who 
hath thus taught us to pray in His Name, and pro- 
mised to hear us : 

Our Father which art ix heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name : Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be doxe ix earth, as it is ix heayex : glye 
us this day our daily bread : axd forgiye us 
our debts, as aye forgiye our debtors: axd 
lead us xot ixto temptatiox, but deliyer us 
from evil: For Thixe is the Kixgdom, axd 
the Power, axd the Glory, for eyer. Amen. 

a prayer after the explaxatiox of the 
catechism. 

O GRACIOUS God and Merciful Father, we giYe 
Thee hearty thanks that it hath pleased Thee, not 
only to take us, but also our little children, into 
Thy covenant, which Thou hast not only sealed 



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unto them, by Holy Baptism, but also daily show- 
est, when Thou perfectest Thy praise out of their 
mouths, thus to cause the wise of the world to 
blush. We beseech Thee, increase Thy grace in 
them, that they may always grow and increase in 
Christ Thy Son; till they acquire their perfect 
manly age in all knowledge and righteousness. 
Give us grace that we may educate them, as Thou 
hast commanded us, in Thy knowledge and fear, so 
that by their godliness the kingdom of Satan may 
be destroyed, and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ 
strengthened in this and other congregations, to 
the glory of Thy Holy Name, and to their eternal 
salvation, through Jesus Christ. Amen. 

A MORNING PRAYER. 

O MERCIFUL Father, we thank Thee, that Thou 
hast in faithfulness watched over us the night past : 
and we beseech Thee to strengthen, and henceforth 
guide us by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may spend 
this, and all the days of our lives, in all righteous- 
ness and holiness ; and that whatsoever we under- 
take, we may always aim at the promoting of Thy 
glory, and expect all the success of our undertak- 
ings from Thy bountiful hand alone. And to the 
end that we may obtain this mercy of Thee, be 
pleased (according to Thy promise) to forgive all 
our sins, through the holy passion and blood-shed- 
ding of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; for we 
heartily repent of them. Enlighten also our hearts, 
that we, having cast off all works of darkness, may, 
a-s children of light, walk in a new life in all godli- 
ness. Bless also the preaching of Thy Gospel. 



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Destroy all the works of the devil. Strengthen all 
ministers of the Gospel and magistrates of Thy peo- 
ple. Comfort all those who are persecuted and 
afflicted in mind; through Jesus Christ Thy Beloved 
Son, Who hath promised us that Thou wilt certainly 
give us whatsoever we shall ask in His Name, and 
therefore hath commanded us to pray : OUR 
Father, etc. 

AN EVENING PRAYER. 

O MERCIFUL God, Eternal Light, shining in dark- 
ness, Thou who dispellest the night of sin, and all 
blindness of heart ; since Thou hast appointed the 
night for rest and the day for labor, we beseech 
Thee, grant that our bodies may rest in peace and 
quietness, that afterwards they may be able to 
endure the labor they must bear. Temper our 
sleep, that it be not disorderly, that we may remain 
spotless both in body and soul, nay, that our sleep 
itself may be to Thy glory. Enlighten the eyes of 
our understanding, that we may not sleep in death ; 
but always look for deliverance from this misery. 
Defend us against all assaults of the devil, and take 
us into Thy holy protection. And although we 
have not passed this day without having greatly 
sinned against Thee, we beseech Thee to hide our 
sins with Thy great mercy, as Thou hidest all things 
on earth with the darkness of the night, that we 
therefore may not be cast out from Thy presence. 
Relieve and comfort all those who are afflicted or* 
distressed in mind, body, or estate ; through Jesus 
Christ our Lord, Who hath taught us to pray : OUR 
Father, etc. 



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A PRAYER FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
STATES AND ALL IN AUTHORITY. 

O LORD, our Heavenly Father, the High and 
Mighty Ruler of the Universe, who dost from Thy 
throne behold all the dwellers upon earth ; most 
heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold 
and bless Thy servant, The President of the 
United States, and all others in authority ; and 
so replenish them with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, 
that they may always incline to Thy will, and walk 
in Thy way. Endue them plenteously with heav- 
enly gifts ; grant them in health and prosperity 
long to live ; and finally, after this life, to attain 
everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 

A PRAYER FOR ALL CONDITIONS OF MEN. 

O God, the Creator and Preserver of all man- 
kind, we humbly beseech Thee for all sorts and 
conditions of men ; that Thou wouldest be pleased 
to make Thy ways known unto them, Thy saving 
health unto all nations. More especially we pray 
for Thy Holy Church Universal ; that it may be so 
guided and governed by Thy Good Spirit, that all 
who profess and call themselves Christians may be 
led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in 
unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in right- 
eousness of life. Finally we commend to Thy fa- 
therly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, 
or distressed, in mind, body, or estate ; that it may 
please Thee to comfort and relieve them, according 
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under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all 
their afflictions. And this we beg for Jesus Christ's 
sake. Amen. 

THANKSGIVING AFTER HARVEST. 

We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful 
Father, for all Thy goodness, and especially for this 
Thy bounty again bestowed upon us, who, through 
Thy providence and tender mercy towards us, have 
now reaped the fruits of the earth in due season, 
and gathered them into our garners. Continue, we 
beseech Thee, Thy loving kindness towards us, that 
year by year our land may yield her increase, fill- 
ing our hearts with food and gladness, to the com- 
fort of Thy people and the glory of Thy Holy 
Name ; and so dispose us by Thy special grace 
preventing us, that we Thy servants may never sow 
only to the flesh, lest of the flesh we reap corrup- 
tion, but may sow spiritually to life everlasting, and 
reap the same in Thy heavenly kingdom ; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Am EN. 

A GENERAL THANKSGIVING. 

Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, Thine 
unworthy servants, do give Thee most humble and 
hearty thanks for all Thy goodness and loving-kind- 
ness to us, and to all men. We bless Thee for our 
creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this 
life ; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the 
redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ ; 
for the means of grace and for the hope of glory. 
And, we beseech Thee, give us that due sense of all 



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Thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly 
thankful, and that we may show forth Thy praise, 
not only with our lips, but in our lives ; by giving 
up ourselves to Thy service, and by walking before 
Thee in holiness and righteousness all our days ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord, to Whom, with Thee 
and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world 
without end. Amen. 

A PRAYER IN TIME OF DROUGHT. 
O God, our Creator, Preserver, and Bountiful 
Benefactor, Who givest seed-time and harvest, and 
sendest both the early and latter rain ; have pity, we 
beseech Thee, upon Thy famished people who cry 
unto Thee in their tribulation, and in Thy compas- 
sion return and visit us ; that the heavens may no 
longer be as brass above, and the earth as iron 
beneath, to shut out from us Thy mercy ; but that 
all the people may praise Thee, O God, Who art 
the Fountain of living waters and the Father of 
mercies, from Whom cometh down every good 
and perfect gift ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

a prayer in time of pestilence. 

HOLY Lord God Almighty, Who of old didst stay 
the Angel of Pestilence at the cry of Thy repenting 
children, and bring back health to a dying people ; 
hear us, Thy suppliants, returning to Thee, as in 
sackcloth, dust and ashes, and mercifully lift from 
us the heavy hand of Thy righteous visitation ; 
that the people may live before Thee, and not die 
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by reason of Thy judgments, O Lord, Who for our 
iniquities are justly displeased. We ask it humbly 
in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN. 

FOR FAIR WEATHER. 

O GOD of love and compassion, Who of old didst 
set Thy bow in the cloud for a token of a covenant 
between Thee and the earth, we humble ourselves 
before Thee on account of our sins, and acknowledge 
Thy chastisement to be just. Yet spare us, O Lord. 
Stay the excess of rain, and cause Thy sun to shine, 
that, the hope of harvest being fulfilled, our barns 
may be stored with Thy bounty, and our souls 
rejoice in Thee. Above all, O Lord, grant that the 
Sun of Righteousness may arise upon us with heal- 
ing in His wings, and Thy people, walking all the 
day in the light of Thy countenance, in Thy right- 
eousness may be exalted. Do this, O Father of 
mercies, for the sake of Thy Son Jesus Christ. 
Amen. 

for peace. 

O God of Peace, Who didst send unto us mes- 
sages of peace by Thy Son, the Prince of peace, and 
commandest us to be at peace with all men, we 
entreat Thee to save us from quarrel, bloodshed, 
and war. Still the tumult of the people as Thou 
dost the raging of the sea.* Disappoint the devices 



* In time of war may be here inserted : 

Give us not over into the hands of our enemies, but defend us and 
grant us the victory, which is in Thine hand. 



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of the wicked, and bring their machinations to 
naught. Fill our hearts and the hearts of all men 
with Thy love, so that we may dwell in safety under 
the w T ings of Thy Holy Spirit, and have peace with 
God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

FOR THE ABSENT FROM HOME. 

O God, Who art everywhere present, ruling the 
sea and the land, we entreat Thee for Thy servant 
now absent from us. Rescue him from peril, from 
sickness, from sin, and from death. Cover him as 
with a shield, and sanctify his experience of Thy 
mercy to his eternal profit and joy. In due time 
restore him to his home, and keep him and us 
through the journey of this life, that we may all 
reach our Father's house in peace, through His grace 
Who hath opened the kingdom of Heaven to all 
who believe in His Holy Name. Amen. 

ON COMMENCING A JOURNEY. 

O MOST Glorious Lord God, Who of old didst 
lead Thine armies as with a pillar of cloud by day 
and of fire by night, be our Leader and Guardian, we 
beseech Thee, in all our journeyings ; our support in 
setting out ; our solace on the way ; our shadow in 
the heat ; our covert in the rain and cold ; the help 
of our weariness ; the fortress of our adversity ; and 
our staff in the way of danger; that under Thy 
guidance we may safely come to- our journey's end, 
and at length to the end of this our earthly warfare 
and pilgrimage; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 



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FOR A PERSON' GOING TO SEA. 

O Eternal Lord God, Who alone spreadest out 
the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea: We 
commend to Thine Almighty protection Thy ser- 
vant, for whose preservation on the great deep our 
prayers are desired. Guard him, we beseech Thee, 
from the dangers of the sea, from sickness, from the 
violence of enemies, from every evil ; and conduct 
him in safety to the haven where Jie would be, with 
a grateful sense of Thy mercies ; through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. AMEN. 

A PRAYER FOR SICK AND TEMPTED PERSONS. 

O ALMIGHTY, eternal, righteous God, and merciful 
Father, who art Lord of life and death, and with- 
out whose will, nothing is done in heaven nor in 
earth ; although we are not worthy to call upon Thy 
Name, nor to hope that Thou wilt hear us, when we 
consider how we have hitherto employed our time ; 
we beseech Thee that Thou wilt be pleased of Thy 
mercy to look upon us in the face of Jesus Christ, 
w T ho hath taken all our infirmities on Himself. We 
acknowledge that we are utterly incapable of any 
good and prone to all evil, wherefore w r e have justly 
merited this punishment, yea, have deserved much 
more. But Lord, Thou knowest that we are Thy 
people, and that Thou art our God : we have no 
other refuge than Thy mercy, which Thou never hast 
withheld from any one who turned himself to Thee. 
Therefore we beseech Thee not to impute our sins 
unto us, but to account the wisdom, righteousness 
and holiness of Jesus Christ, to us, that we may in 



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Him be able to stand before Thee. Deliver us for His 
sake from these sufferings, that the wicked may not 
think that Thou hast forsaken us. And if it is Thy 
pleasure longer thus to try us, give us strength and 
patience to bear all such, according to Thy will, and 
let all turn according to Thy wisdom to our profit. 
Rather chastise us here than let us hereafter be lost 
with the world. Grant that we may die to this 
world, and all earthly things, and that we may daily 
more and more be renewed after the image of Jesus 
Christ. Suffer us not to be separated by any means 
from Thy love ; but draw us daily nigher and nigher 
unto Thee, that we may enter upon the end of our 
calling with joy ; which is, to die, to rise again, and 
to live with Christ in eternity. We also believe that 
Thou wilt hear us through Jesus Christ, who hath 
taught us to pray : OUR FATHER, etc. 

Strengthen us also in the true faith, which we 
believe in our hearts and profess with our mouths : 
I believe in God, etc. 

1 Or This : 

Eternal merciful God and Father, the eternal 
salvation of the living and the everlasting life of the 
dying; seeing that Thou hast death and life in Thy 
hand alone, and takest such care of us continually, 
that neither health nor sickness, nor any good or 
evil can befall us — nay, not a hair can fall from our 
head, without Thy will ; and since thou dost order all 
things for the good of Thy people ; we beseech Thee, 
grant us the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, to teach us 
rightly to acknowledge our misery, and patiently to 
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thousand times more severe. We know that they 
are not the evidences of Thy wrath, but of Thy 
fatherly love towards us, that we should not be con- 
demned with the world. O Lord, increase our faith 
in Thine infinite mercy, that we may be more and 
more united to Christ, as members to their spiritual 
Head, to Whom thou wilt make us conform in suffer- 
ings and in glory. Lighten the cross, so that our 
weakness may be able to bear it. We submit our- 
selves entirely to Thy holy will, whether Thou art 
pleased to continue our souls longer in these taber- 
nacles, or to take them into eternal life, since we be- 
long to Christ, and therefore shall not perish. We 
would willingly leave this weak body in hope of a 
blessed resurrection, when it shall be restored to us 
much more glorious. Grant us to experience the 
blessed comfort of the remission of sins, and of jus- 
tification through Christ, that we by that shield may 
overcome all the assaults of Satan. May His inno- 
cent blood wash away all the stain and uncleanness 
of our sins, and His righteousness answer for our un- 
righteousness in Thy last judgment. Arm us with 
faith and hope, that we may not be ashamed nor 
confounded by the terror of death ; but when our 
bodily eyes are closing in darkness, may the eyes of 
our souls be directed towards Thee ; and when Thou 
shalt have deprived us of the use of our tongues, 
may our hearts never cease to call upon Thee. O 
Lord, we commit our souls into Thy hands. Forsake 
us not in our last extremity, and that only for the 
sake of Jesus Christ, who hath taught us to pray: 
Our Father, etc. I believe in God, etc. 



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FOR THE SICK. 

O LORD God, in Whose hand our breath is ; 
regard with tender compassion Thy servant, whom 
it hath pleased Thee to visit with sickness. Be 
graciously near to him in the hour of his need. Grant 
unto him true repentance for all his sins, a firm and 
steady trust in the merits of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, 
and grace to be in perfect charity with all men. 
Enable him to cast all his cares on Thee, and to yield 
himself with childlike submission to Thy righteous 
will. 

God of all power and grace, bless, we entreat 
Thee, the means used for his recovery, rebuke the 
violence of disease, and raise him up from his bed 
of pain, that, being delivered by Thy compassion, 
he may walk before Thee in newness of life. But 
if, O Most Wise and Merciful Father, this sickness 
should be unto death, grant him, we humbly implore 
Thee, a comfortable release from all his sufferings. 
Let the arms of Thine everlasting love be around 
hint, and, when flesh and heart shall fail, be Thou 
the strength of his heart and his portion for evermore ; 
through the mediation and merits of Thy Son, Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

FOR A SICK CHILD. 

O Almighty God and Merciful Father, to whom 
alone belong the issues of life and death ; look down 
from Heaven, we humbly beseech Thee, upon this 
child, now lying upon the bed of sickness. Visit 
hint, O Lord, with Thy salvation, deliver him in Thy 
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roul for Thy mercies' sake ; that if it shall be Thy 
pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may 
live to Thee, and be an instrument of Thy glory, by 
serving Thee faithfully, and doing good in his gen- 
eration ; or else receive him into those heavenly 
habitations, where the souls of those who sleep in 
the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity. 
Grant this, O Lord, for Thy mercies' sake, in the 
Name of Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who liv- 
eth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, 
ever one God, world without end. Amen. 

FOR GRACE TO USE ARIGHT THE WORD. 

Blessed Lord, Who hast caused all Holy Scrip- 
tures to be written for our learning; grant that we 
may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and 
inwardly digest them, that by patience and com- 
fort of Thy Holy Word we may embrace and ever 
hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which 
Thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. 
Amen. 

for forgiveness. 

Almighty and Everlasting God, Who hatest 
nothing that Thou hast made, and dost forgive the 
sins of all those who are penitent ; Create and make 
in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily 
lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretched- 
ness, may obtain of Thee, the God of all mercy, per- 
fect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 



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FOR PROTECTION. 

Almighty God, Who seest that we have no power 
of ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both out- 
wardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls ; 
that we may be defended from all adversities 
which may endanger the body, and from all evil 
thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul ; and 
as we have received how we ought to walk and 
please Thee, so may we abound more and more ; 
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. 

AT THE CHRISTMAS SEASON. 

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away 
the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of 
light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which 
Thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us with great 
humility: that in the last day, when He shall come 
again in His glorious Majesty to judge both the 
quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal : 
through Him who liveth and reigneth with Thee and 
the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen. 

O Lord, Who hast given us cause of perpetual 
joy by the coming of Thy Son our Saviour among 
us : Raise up Thy Power, we pray Thee, and pos- 
sess us with a mighty sense of Thy wonderful love ; 
that whereas through the cares of this life we are 
sorely let and hindered in running the race that is 
set before us, we may be careful for nothing, but 
thankfully commending ourselves in everything to 
Thy bountiful grace and mercy, the peace of Thee, 



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our God, which passeth all understanding, may keep 
our hearts and minds, through the satisfaction 
of Thy Son our Lord ; to Whom, with Thee and 
the Holy Ghost, be honor and glory, world with- 
out end. Amen. 

AT THE EASTER SEASON. 

ALMIGHTY God, Who hast given Thine only Son 
to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an 
example of godly life: Give us grace that we may 
always most thankfully receive that His most inesti- 
mable benefit ; and also daily endeavor to follow the 
blessed steps of His most holy life ; that dying unto 
sin, and living unto righteousness, we may at last 
obtain eternal life : Through the same Jesus Christ 
our Lord. AMEN. 1 

BLESSED Lord, Whose Only Son our Saviour Jesus 
Christ hath once suffered for our sins, the just for 
the unjust, that He might bring us to Thee our God : 
We beseech Thee, that as we are baptized into His 
death, so by continually mortifying our corrupt 
affections we may be buried with Him; and at last 
through the grave, and gate of death, pass to our 
joyful resurrection : For His merits, Who died, and 
was buried, and rose again, Thy Son Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 

ALMIGHTY and Everlasting God, Who of Thy 
tender love towards mankind hast sent Thy Son, our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon Him our flesh, and 
that in the form of a servant, and to suffer death, 
even the death of the Cross, for our redemption, and 



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that we should follow the example of His great humil- 
ity, patience, and obedience : Mercifully grant that 
this mind may be in us which was also in Christ 
Jesus, that we may both follow the example of His 
humble obedience and patient suffering, and also be 
made partakers of His glorious resurrection, to live 
with Thee forever. Grant this for the sake of Thy 
Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. 

AT THE SEASON OF PENTECOST. 

O GOD the King of Glory, Who hast exalted 
Thine- only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph 
unto Thy Kingdom in heaven ; We beseech Thee, 
leave us not comfortless ; but send to us Thy Holy 
Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same 
place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before ; Who 
liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, 
One God, world without end. Amen. 

God of all peace and consolation, Who didst glo- 
riously fulfil the great promise of the Gospel, by 
sending down Thy Holy Ghost on the day of Pen- 
tecost, to establish the Church as the home of His 
continual presence and power among men ; merci- 
fully grant unto us, we beseech Thee, this same gift 
of the Spirit, to renew, illuminate, refresh, and sanc- 
tify our dying souls, to be over us and around us like 
the light and dew of heaven, and to be in us ever- 
more as a well of water springing up into everlasting 
life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to Whom, with 
Thee, and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, be honor 
and glory, world without end. Amen. 



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EUCHARISTIC PRAYER. 

The Constitution of the Church directs that in the administration of the Lord's 
►Supper, " after the sermon and usual prayers are ended, the Form for the admin- 
istration of the Lord's Supper shall be read, and a prayer suited to the occasion 
shall be offered, before the members participate of the ordinance." 

The following is submitted as a suitable prayer, which may be used in compliance 
with this direction. 

It is very meet and right, above all things, to 
give thanks unto Thee, O Eternal God : Who, by 
Thy word, didst create heaven and earth, and all 
things therein. For all Thy bounties known to us, 
for all unknown, we give Thee thanks ; but chiefly, 
that when, through disobedience, we had fallen from 
Thee, Thou didst not suffer us to depart from Thee 
forever, but hast ransomed us from eternal death, and 
given us the joyful hope of everlasting life, through 
Jesus Christ Thy Son; Who, being Very and Eternal 
God, became Man for us men, and for our salvation. 

Not as we ought, but as we are able, we bless 
Thee for His holy incarnation ; for His life on earth ; 
for His precious sufferings and death upon the 
cross; for His resurrection from the dead; and for 
His glorious ascension to Thy right hand. 

We bless Thee for the giving of the Holy Ghost; 
for the sacraments and ordinances of the Church ; 
for the communion of Christ's Body and Blood ; for 
the great hope of everlasting life, and of an eternal 
weight of glory. 

Thee, Mighty God, Heavenly King, we magnify 
and praise. With angels and archangels, and all the 
hosts of heaven, we worship and adore Thy glorious 
Name, joining in the song of Cherubim and Sera- 
phim, and saying: — 



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Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth, 
heaven and earth are full of thy glory, 
hosanna in the highest. blessed is he that 
cometh in the name of the lord. hosanna 
in the highest. 

And we most humbly beseech Thee, O Merciful 
Father, to vouchsafe unto us Thy gracious pres- 
ence, as we commemorate in this Supper the most 
blessed sacrifice of Thy Son ; and to bless and 
sanctify with Thy Word and Spirit these Thine own 
gifts of bread and wine which we set before Thee ; 
that we, receiving them, according to our Saviour's 
institution, in thankful remembrance of His death 
and passion, may, through the power of the Holy 
Ghost, be very partakers of His body and blood, 
with all His benefits, to our salvation and the glory 
of Thy Most Holy Name. 

And here we offer and present to Thee, O Lord, 
ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, 
holy, and living sacrifice unto Thee ; humbly be- 
seeching Thee that all who are partakers of this 
Holy Communion, may be filled with Thy grace and 
heavenly benediction. And although we be un- 
worthy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto 
Thee any sacrifice, yet we beseech Thee to accept 
this our bounden duty and service; not weighing 
our merits, but pardoning our offences, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. 

And rejoicing in the communion of Thy saints, we 
bless Thy Holy Name for all Thy servants who 
have departed in the faith, and who, having accom- 
plished their warfare, are at rest with Thee; be- 
seeching Thee to enable us so to follow their faith 



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and good example, that we with them may finally 
be partakers of Thy heavenly Kingdom : when, 
made like unto Christ, we shall behold Him with 
unveiled face, rejoicing in His glory, and by Him 
we, with all Thy Church, holy and unspotted, shall 
be presented with exceeding joy before the presence 
of Thy glory. Hear us, 0 Heavenly Father, for 
His sake: to Whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, 
be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 

A PRAYER AT THE OPENING OF THE CONSISTORY. 

Heavenly Father, Eternal and Merciful God, it 
hath pleased Thee of Thy infinite wisdom and good- 
ness to gather a Church to Thyself out of all nations 
upon the face of the earth, by the preaching of Thy 
Holy Gospel, and to govern the same by the service 
of men. Thou hast also graciously called us up to this 
office, and commanded us to take heed unto our- 
selves and unto the flock, which Christ hath bought 
with His precious blood. Since we are at this 
present assembled in Thy Holy N ame, after the ex- 
ample of the Apostolic Churches, to consult, as our 
office requires, about those things which may come 
before us, for the welfare and edification of Thy 
Church, for w T hich we acknowledge ourselves to be 
unfit and incapable, as we are by nature unable of 
ourselves to think any good, much less to put it in 
practice : therefore, we beseech Thee, O Faithful 
God and Father, that Thou wilt be pleased to be 
present with Thy Holy Spirit, according to Thy 
promise, in the midst of our present assembly, to 
guide us into all truth. Remove from us all misap- 



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prehensions and unbecoming desires of the flesh, 
and grant that Thy Holy Word may be the only 
rule and guide of all our consultations ; that they 
may tend to the glory of Thy Name, to the edifica- 
tion of Thy Church, and to the discharge of our own 
consciences, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, who 
with Thee and the Holy Ghost, the Only True God, 
is eternally to be praised and magnified. Amen. 

A PRAYER AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONSISTORY. 

O Lord God and Heavenly Father, we heartily 
thank Thee, that Thou hast been pleased to gather 
a Church to Thyself in this part of the world, and 
to use our services therein, granting us the privilege 
that we may freely and without hindrance preach 
Thy Holy Gospel, and exercise all the duties of god- 
liness. Moreover, we thank Thee, that Thou now 
hast been present with Thy Holy Spirit in the midst 
of this our assembly, directing our determinations 
according to Thy will, uniting our hearts in mutual 
peace and concord. We beseech Thee, O Faithful 
God and Father, that Thou wilt graciously be 
pleased to bless our intended labor, and effectually 
to execute Thy begun work ; always gathering unto 
Thyself a true Church, and preserving the same in 
the pure doctrine, and in the right use of Thy Holy 
Sacraments, and in a diligent exercise of discipline. 
On the contrary, destroy all evil and crafty counsels, 
which are devised against Thy Word and Church. 
Strengthen also all the Ministers of Thy Church, 
that they may faithfully and steadfastly declare Thy 
Holy Word : and the Magistrates of Thy people, 



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that they may bear the sword with righteousness 
and discretion. Particularly we pray for those 
whom Thou hast been pleased to put in authority 
over us. Grant that their whole government may 
be thus directed, that the King of all kings may 
rule over them and their fellow-citizens ; and that 
the kingdom of the devil (which is a kingdom of 
scandal and reproach) may daily more and more be 
destroyed and brought to naught by them as Thy 
servants, and that we may lead with them a quiet 
and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty. 
Hear us, O God and Father, through Jesus Christ 
Thy Beloved Son, Who with Thee and the Holy 
Ghost, the Only and True God, is eternally to be 
magnified and praised. Amen. 

A PRAYER AT THE MEETING OF THE DEACONS. 

Merciful God and Father, Thou hast not only 
said unto us that we should always have the poor 
with us, but hast also commanded that they 
should be assisted ; and for that end hast ordained 
the service of Deacons in Thy Church, by whom 
they might be relieved. As w T e, who are called to 
the office of Deacons in this congregation, are here 
at present met in Thy Name, to consult together 
concerning our ministry; therefore we humbly be- 
seech Thee, for the sake of Jesus Christ, that Thou 
w r ilt be pleased to endue us with the spirit of dis- 
cretion ; to the end that we may rightly discern who 
are really poor and who are not : and that we may, 
w T ith all cheerfulness and fidelity, distribute the alms 
collected by us to every one according to his neces- 



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sity; not leaving the indigent members of Thy 
Beloved Son comfortless, neither giving to those 
who are not in want. Kindle within the hearts of 
men an ardent love towards the poor, that they 
may liberally give of their temporal goods, of which 
Thou hast made them stewards : and that we, having 
the means in hand to assist the indigent, may faith- 
fully, without vexation, and with a free heart, per- 
form our office. Grant us the talents to comfort 
the miserable, not only with the external gift, but 
also with Thy Holy Word. And since man doth not 
live by bread alone, but by every word that pro 
ceedeth out of Thy mouth, be pleased therefore to 
extend Thy blessing over our distributions, and in- 
crease the bread of the poor, that both we and they 
may have reason to praise and thank Thee : expect- 
ing the blessed coming of Thy Beloved Son Jesus 
Christ, Who became poor for our sakes, to make us 
rich in eternity. Amen. 

A PRAYER ON THE LORD'S DAY, AFTER SERMON. 

Almighty and merciful God, we acknowledge in 
ourselves, and confess before Thee, as the truth is, 
that we are not worthy to lift up our eyes towards 
heaven, and to present our prayers before Thee, if 
Thou shouldst respect our merits and worthiness : 
for our consciences accuse us, and our sins bear wit- 
ness against us. We also know that Thou art a right- 
eous Judge, punishing the sins of those who trans- 
gress Thy commandments. But, O Lord, since Thou 
hast commanded us to call upon Thee in ail times 
of necessity, and hast of Thine ineffable mercy 



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promised to hear our prayers, not because of our 
merits, which are none, but for the merits of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast appointed to be our 
Mediator and Advocate ; therefore, we forsake all 
other help, and take our refuge in Thy mercy alone. 

Especially, O Lord, besides the innumerable ben- 
efits, which Thou showest to all mankind in general 
on earth, Thou hast in particular bestowed manifold 
favors on us, which w r e are not able to comprehend 
or express : for Thou hast delivered us from the 
woful slavery of the devil, and all idolatry wherein 
we were held, and hast brought us to the light of 
Thy truth, and to the knowledge of Thy Holy Gos- 
pel. On the contrary, we have by our ingratitude 
been regardless of these Thy benefits. We have 
departed from Thee, and have followed our own 
devices, not honoring Thee as was our bounden duty 
to do. Thus, O Lord, have we grievously sinned, 
and highly offended Thee, and can expect nothing 
else than everlasting death and damnation, if Thou 
shouldst deal with us according to our deserts. Yea, 
we also perceive, O Lord, by the chastisement which 
Thou daily art inflicting on us, that Thou art justly 
displeased with us ; for since Thou art just, Thou 
wilt punish no man without cause : and we also see 
Thine hand stretched out further to punish us. But 
though Thou shouldst punish us more severely than 
Thou hast hitherto done ; nay, though all the plagues 
fell upon us, wherewith Thou didst visit the sins of 
Thy people Israel, w r e must still confess that Thou 
wouldst do us no injustice. 

But, O Lord, Thou art our God, and we are but 
dust and ashes ; Thou art our Creator, and we are 



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Thy handy work ; Thou art our Shepherd, and we 
are Thy sheep ; Thou art our Redeemer, and we are 
those whom Thou hast redeemed ; Thou art our 
Father, and we are Thy children and heirs. There- 
fore, do not punish us in Thine anger, but chastise 
us mercifully, and preserve that work, which Thou 
hast of Thy mercy begun in us ; that the whole 
world may know and acknowledge Thee to be our 
God and Saviour. Thy people Israel frequently 
offended Thee, and Thou didst justly punish them; 
but as oft as they turned themselves again to Thee, 
Thou didst always mercifully receive them into favor. 
And though their sins and transgressions were ever 
so great, Thou didst always avert Thy wrath and 
punishment prepared for them, by reason of the 
Covenant which Thou hadst made with Thy servants, 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; so that Thou never 
hast refused to hear the prayers of Thy people. 
And we have of Thy mercy even that same Covenant, 
which Thou hast erected in the hand of Jesus Christ 
our Mediator, between Thee and all believers : nay, 
it is now more glorious and efficacious, since Christ 
hath ratified and confirmed the same by His holy 
suffering and death, and entrance into His glory. 
Therefore, O Lord, forsaking ourselves and all human 
assistance, we fly for succor to this blessed Covenant 
of Grace, by means whereof our Lord Jesus Christ, 
having offered His body once on the cross as a per- 
fect sacrifice for us, hath reconciled us to Thee 
for ever Therefore, O Lord, look upon the face of 
Thine anointed, and not on our sins, that Thine anger 
may be appeased by His intercession : and cause 
Thy face to shine on us, to our joy and salvation. 



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Take us henceforth into Thy Holy guidance and 
protection, and govern us by Thy Holy Spirit, Who, 
daily more and more mortifying our flesh with all its 
lusts, renews us to a better life, and produces in us 
fruits of true faith ; that hereby Thy Name may be 
glorified and praised to all eternity ; and that we, 
despising all transitory things, may, with an ardent 
desire, fix our thoughts only on things heavenly. 

And inasmuch as it is Thy pleasure that we should 
pray for all mankind, we beseech Thee to extend 
Thy blessing on the doctrine of Thy Holy Gospel, 
that it may be preached and accepted everywhere ; 
that the whole world may be filled with Thy saving 
knowledge ; that the ignorant may be converted, 
the weak strengthened ; that every one, not only in 
word, but also in deed, may magnify and sanctify 
Thy Holy Name. Send forth, for this end, faithful 
laborers into Thy harvest : and also replenish them 
with Thy grace, that they may faithfully serve before 
Thee. On the contrary, utterly destroy all false 
teachers, ravenous wolves, and hirelings, who seek 
their own honor and advantage, and not the glory 
of Thy Holy Name, nor the welfare and salvation of 
souls. Be also pleased graciously to preserve and 
govern all Thy Christian Churches, spread over the 
face of the earth, in unity of true faith, and in god- 
liness of life, that Thy kingdom may daily increase, 
and that of Satan be destroyed, till Thy kingdom is 
perfected, when Thou shalt be all in ail- 
Particularly we pray for the United States of 
America. Keep them under Thy Holy protection; 
prosper them in their agriculture, manufactures, 
commerce, and literature; and let their civil and 



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religious rights be preserved inviolate to the latest 

posterity. 

Bless and long preserve Thy servant, the President 
of the United States. Bless the Vice-President ; the 
Senate and House of Representatives, when in Con- 
gress assembled. Bless all who are placed in author- 
ity throughout the States, and especially in the State 
wherein we reside ; the Governor, the Magistrates, 
and all others entrusted with powers, either legis- 
lative or executive. Replenish them all with Thy 
grace and heavenly gifts, each in the respective call- 
ing and state wherein Thou hast placed him, that 
they may wisely govern and strenuously protect the 
people whom Thou hast committed to their care, 
faithfully defend Thy worship, and rightly administer 
justice. Preside with Thy Holy Spirit in their assem- 
blies, that in all cases they may resolve nothing 
but what is good and becoming, and let the laws be 
happily executed ; that these United States being 
preserved from all enemies, the evil doers punished, 
and the just protected, Thy Name thereby may be 
praised, and the kingdom of the King of kings, 
Christ Jesus, promoted : and that we may lead a 
quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 

Moreover, we pray for our brethren who are under 
persecution of tyranny. Comfort them with Thy 
Holy Spirit and mercifully deliver them. Suffer not 
Thy Church wholly to be destroyed, nor the remem- 
brance of Thy Name to be abolished from the face 
of the earth, lest the enemies of Thy truth triumph, 
to the dishonoring and blaspheming of Thy Name. 
But if it is Thy divine will, that the suffering Chris- 
tians should die for the glory of Thy Name, and by 



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their death, witness unto the truth, comfort them in 
their sufferings, that they, considering them as com- 
ing from Thy fatherly hand, may therefore, doing 
Thy will, remain steadfast, whether in life or death ; 
to Thy glory, to the edification of Thy Church, and 
to their salvation. We likewise beseech Thee for 
all those whom Thou dost afflict, with poverty, im- 
prisonment, sickness of body, or trouble of mind. 
Comfort them all, O Lord, according to their several 
necessities. Grant that their chastisement may 
bring them to the knowledge of their sins, and to 
an amendment of their lives. Give them also 
firm patience ; alleviate their sufferings ; and finally 
deliver them, that they may rejoice in Thy goodness 
and eternally praise Thy Name. 

And now, O Lord, take us, together with all that 
belongs to or concerns us, in Thy keeping. Grant 
that we may live in our respective callings according 
to Thy will, and so use the gifts which we receive of 
Thy blessing, that they may not impede, but rather 
further us to life eternal. Strengthen us in all temp- 
tations, that we, striving in true faith, may overcome, 
and hereafter enjoy, w r ith Christ, life eternal. 

We ask Thee for all these things, as our faithful 
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ Himself hath taught 
us: Our Father which art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name : Thy kingdom come ; Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven : 
Give us this day our daily bread : and for- 
give US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS ; 

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil : for thine is the kingdom, and 
the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen. 



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IV. 

The Creeds. 



THE APOSTLES' CREED. 

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker 
of heaven and earth ; 

And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son our Lord ; 
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born 
of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, 
was crucified, dead, and buried ; He descended into 
hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; 
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right 
hand of God the Father Almighty ; from thence He 
shall come to judge the quick and the dead. 

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the Holy Catholic 
Church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness 
of sins ; the resurrection of the body ; and the life 
everlasting. Amen. 



THE CONFESSION OF FAITH, 

COMPOSED IS THE COUNCIL OF NICE, A. D., 325. 

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, 
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things 
visible and invisible ; 

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten 
Son of God, begotten of his Father, before all 



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worlds ; God, of God, Light, of Light, very God, of 
very God ; begotten, not made, being of one sub- 
stance with the Father, by Whom all things were 
made : Who, for us men and for our salvation, came 
down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy 
Ghost of the Virgin Mary ; and was made Man ; and 
was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He 
suffered and was buried ; and the third day He 
arose again according to the Scriptures ; and as- 
cended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand 
of the Father. And He shall come again, with 
glory, to judge both the quick and the dead ; Whose 
kingdom shall have no end. 

And in the Holy Ghost, Who spake by the pro- 
phets. And one holy Catholic and Apostolic 
Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the re- 
mission of sins ; and we look for the resurrection 
of the dead, and the life of the world to come. 
Amen. 



THE CREED OF ATHANASIUS, A. D. 333. 

1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it 
is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith. 

2. Which faith, except one do keep whole and 
undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlast- 
ingly. 

3. The Catholic faith is this, that we worship one 
God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; 

4. Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing 
the substance. 

5. For there is one person of the Father, another 
of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. 



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6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost is all one ; the Glory equal, 
and the Majesty coeternal. 

7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and 
such is the Holy Ghost. 

8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and 
the Holy Ghost uncreated. 

9 The Father incomprehensible, and the Son in- 
comprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incompre- 
hensible. 

10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the 
Holy Ghost eternal : 

11. And yet they are not three Eternals; but one 
Eternal. 

12. As also there are not three Incomprehensi- 
sbles, nor three Uncreated ; but one Uncreated, and 
one Incomprehensible. 

13. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son 
Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. 

14. And yet they are not three Almighties, but 
one Almighty. 

15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and 
the Holy Ghost is God. 

16. And yet there are not three Gods, but one 
God. 

17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the son Lord, 
and the Holy Ghost Lord. 

18. And yet they are not three Lords, but one 
Lord. 

19. For, as we are compelled by the Christian 
truth to acknowledge each Person by Himself tc 
be God and Lord. 



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20. So we are forbidden by the Catholic faith, to 
say, there be three Gods, or three Lords. 

21. The Father is made of none, neither created 
nor begotten. 

22. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, 
nor created, but begotten. 

23. The Holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the 
Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but 
proceeding. 

24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; 
one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not 
three Holy Ghosts: 

25. And in this Trinity, there is not first nor last. 

26. But the whole three Persons are coeternal to- 
gether, and coequal. 

27. So that in all things, as it is aforesaid, the 
Unity in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity is to be 
worshipped. 

28. He therefore that will be saved, must thus 
think of the Trinity. 

29. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting 
salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarna- 
tion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

30. For the right faith is, that we believe and 
confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of 
God, is God and Man : 

31. God of the substance of the Father, begot- 
ten before the world ; and Man of the Substance 
of his Mother, born in time : 

32. Perfect God and perfect Man. having a rea- 
sonable Soul and a human Body : 

33. Equal to the Father, according to his God- 



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head : and inferior to the Father as to his Man- 
hood : 

34. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He 
is not two but one Christ : 

35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into 
flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God. 

36. He is not one by mixture of Substance, but 
by unity of Person. 

37. For the reasonable soul and flesh is one Man ; 
so God and Man is one Christ : 

38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended 
into hell, rose again the third day from the dead ; 

39. He ascended into heaven, sits at the right 
hand of God, the Father Almighty : 

40. From whence He shall come to judge the 
quick and the dead. 

41. At Whose coming all men shall rise again 
with their bodies ; 

42. And shall give account for their own works. 

43. And they that have done good shall go into 
life everlasting ; and they that have done evil, into 
everlasting fire. 

44. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a 
man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. 



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V. 

The Administration of Baptism. 



The principal parts of the doctrine of Holy Bap- 
tism are these three : « 

First. That we with our children are conceived 
and born in sin, and therefore are children of wrath, 
insomuch that w T e cannot enter into the Kingdom 
of God, except we are born again. This, the dip- 
ping in or sprinkling, with water teaches us, whereby 
the impurity of our souls is signified, and we are ad- 
monished to loathe and humble ourselves before God, 
and seek for our purification and salvation without 
ourselves. 

Secondly. Holy Baptism witnesseth and sealeth 
unto us the washing away of our sins, through Jesus 
Christ. Therefore we are baptized IN THE NAME 
of the Father, and of the Sox, and of the 
Holy GHOST. For when we are baptized in the 
name of the Father, God the Father witnesseth 
and sealeth unto us, that He doth make an eternal 
covenant of grace with us, and adopts us for His 
children and heirs, and therefore will provide us 
with every good thing, and avert all evil or turn it 
to our profit. And when we are baptized in the 
name of the SON, the Son sealeth unto us that He 
doth wash us in His blood from all our sins, incor- 



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porating us into the fellowship of His death and 
resurrection, so that we are freed from all our sins 
and accounted righteous before God. In like man- 
ner, when we are baptized in the name of the HOLY 
Ghost, the Holy Ghost assures us, by this Holy 
Sacrament, that He will dwell in us, and sanctify us 
to be members of Christ applying unto us that 
which we have in Christ, namely, the washing away 
of our sins and the daily renewing of our lives, till 
we shall finally be presented without spot or wrinkle 
among the assembly of the elect in life eternal. 

Thirdly. Whereas in all covenants there are 
contained two parts, therefore are we by God, 
through Baptism, admonished of, and obliged unto 
new obedience, namely, that we cleave to this One 
God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; that we trust 
in Him and love Him with all our heart, with all 
our soul, with all our mind, and with all our 
strength ; that we forsake the world, crucify our 
old nature, and walk in a new and holy life. 

And if we sometimes, through weakness, fall into 
sin, we must not therefore despair of God's mercy, 
nor continue in sin, since Baptism is a seal and 
undoubted testimony that we have an eternal cove- 
nant of grace with God. 

I. 

TO INFANTS OF BELIEVERS. 
And although our young children do not under- 
stand these things, we may not therefore exclude 
them from Baptism ; for as they are, without their 
knowledge, partakers of the condemnation in Adam, 
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as God speaketh unto Abraham, the father of all 
the faithful, and therefore unto us and our children, 
(Gen. 17:7,) saying: " I will establish My covenant 
between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in 
their generations, for an everlasting covenant ; to 
be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee/' 
This also the Apostle Peter testifieth, with these 
words, (Acts 2 : 39 :) " For the promise is unto you, 
and to your children, and to all that are afar off, 
even as many as the Lord our God shall call." There- 
fore God formerly commanded them to be circum- 
cised, which was a seal of the Covenant, and of the 
righteousness of faith ; and therefore Christ also 
embraced them, laid His hands upon them and 
blessed them. (Mark 10: 16.) 

Since then Baptism is come in the place of cir- 
cumcision, infants are to be baptized as heirs of. the 
Kingdom of God and of His Covenant. And 
parents are in duty bound, further to instruct their 
children herein, when they shall arrive at years of 
discretion. 

That therefore this Holy Ordinance of God may 
be administered to His glory, to our comfort, and 
to the edification of His Church, let us call upon 
His holy Name. 

PRAYER. 

O Almighty and Eternal God, we beseech Thee 
that Thou wilt be pleased of Thine infinite mercy, 
graciously to look upon these children, and incorpor- 
ate them by Thy Holy Spirit into Thy Son Jesus 
Christ, that they may be buried with Him into 
His death and be raised with Him in newness 
2 



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of life ; that they may daily follow Him, joyfully 
bearing their cross, and cleave unto Him in 
true faith, firm hope, and ardent love ; that they 
may, with a comfortable sense of Thy favor, leave 
this life, which is nothing but a continual death, 
and at the last day, may appear without terror be- 
fore the judgment-seat of Christ Thy Son, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy 
Ghost, One Only God, lives and reigns forever. 
Amen. 

an exhortation to the parents, and those 
who come with them to baptism. 

Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have 
heard that Baptism is an Ordinance of God, to seal 
unto us and to our seed His Covenant. Therefore 
it must be used for that end, and not out of custom 
or superstition. That it may then be manifest that 
you are thus minded, you are to answer sincerely 
to these questions : 

First, Do you acknowledge, that although our 
children are conceived and born in sin, and there- 
fore are subject to all miseries, yea, to condemna 
tion itself ; yet that they are sanctified* in Christ, 
and therefore, as members of His Church, ought to 
be baptized ? 

Secondly. Do you acknowledge the doctrine 
which is contained in the Old and New Testament; 
and in the Articles of the Christian faith, and which 
is taught here in this Christian Church, to be the 
true and perfectf doctrine of salvation ? 



* " My children :" Ezek. 16 : 21. " They are holy :" 1 Cor, 7 : 14. 
t Dutch : Volkomene— complete. 



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Thirdly. Do you promise and intend to see these 
children, when come to the years of discretion, in- 
structed and brought up in the aforesaid doctrine, 
or to help or cause them to be instructed therein, 
to the utmost of your power? 

Answer. Yes. 

Then the Minister of God's Word, in baptizing, shall say : 

, I baptize thee, in the name of the Fa- 
ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 

THANKSGIVING. 

Almighty God and Merciful Father, we thank 
and praise Thee, that Thou hast forgiven us, and 
our children, all our sins, through the blood of Thy 
Beloved Son Jesus Christ, and received us through 
Thy Holy Spirit, as members of Thy Only Begot- 
ten Son, and adopted us to be Thy children, and 
sealed and confirmed the same unto us by Holy 
Baptism. We beseech Thee, through the same Son 
of Thy love, that Thou wilt be pleased always to 
govern these baptized children by Thy Holy Spirit ; 
that they may be piously and religiously educated, 
increase and grow up in the Lord Jesus Christ ; 
that they then may acknowledge Thy Fatherly good- 
ness and mercy, which Thou hast shown to them 
and us ; and live in all righteousness, under our 
only Teacher, King, and High-Priest, Jesus Christ; 
and manfully fight against and overcome sin, the 
devil, and his whole dominion, to the end that they 
may eternally praise and magnify Thee, and Thy 
Son Jesus Christ, together with the Holy Ghost, 
the One Onlv True God. Amen. 



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LITURGY. 



II. 

TO ADULT PERSONS. 

However, children of Christian parents, although 
they understand not this mystery, must be baptized, 
by virtue of the Covenant ; yet it is not lawful to 
baptize those who have come to years of discre- 
tion, except they first be sensible of their sins, and 
make confession both of their repentence and their 
faith in Christ. For this cause not only did John 
the Baptist preach, according to the command of 
God, the baptism of repentance, and baptize for the 
remission of sin, those who confessed their sins, 
(Mark 1:4); but our Lord Jesus Christ also com- 
manded His disciples to teach all nations, and then 
to baptize them, in the name of the Father, and of 
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, adding this prom- 
ise: u He that believeth and is baptized shall be 
saved." According to which rule the Apostles (Acts 
2, 10, 16) baptized none who were of years of discre- 
tion, but such as made confession of their faith and 
repentance. Therefore it is not lawful now to bap- 
tize any other adult persons, than such as have been 
taught the mysteries of Holy Baptism by the 
preaching of the Gospel, and are able to give an 
account of their faith by the confession of the 
mouth. 

Since therefore you, , are also desirous 

of Holy Baptism, to the end it may be to you a seal 
of your engrafting into the Church of God : that it 



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may appear that you* do not only receive tlhe Chris- 
tian religion, in which you have been privately in- 
structed by us, and of which also you have made 
confession before us, but that you, through the grace 
of God, intend and purpose to lead a life according 
to the same ; you are sincerely to give answer before 
God and His Church: 

First. Dost thou believe in the Only True God, 
distinct in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost, Who hath made heaven and earth, and all 
that in them is, of nothing, and still maintains 
and governs them, insomuch that nothing comes to 
pass, either in heaven or on earth, without His 
divine will? 

Answer. Yes. 

Secondly. Dost thou believe that thou art con- 
ceived and born in sin, and therefore art a child of 
wrath by nature, wholly incapable of doing any 
good and prone to all evil ; and that thou hast fre- 
quently, both in thought, word, and deed, trans- 
gressed the commandments of the Lord ; and art 
thou heartily sorry for these sins? 

Answer. Yes. 

Thirdly. Dost thou believe that Christ, who is the 
True and Eternal God, and Very Man, who took 
His human nature on Him out of the flesh and 
blood of the Virgin Mary, is given thee of God, to 



* When persons who have been baptized in Infancy are also to be received to full 
communion, the Minister may here add : 

Together with you also who have been baptized in Infancy. 



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be thy Saviour ; and that thou dost receive, by this 
faith, remission of sins in His blood ; and that thou 
art made, by the power of the Holy Ghost, a 
member of Jesus Christ and of His Church? 
Answer. Yes. 

Fourthly. Dost thou assent to all the Articles of 
the Christian religion, as they are taught here in 
this Christian Church, according to the Word of 
God ; and purpose steadfastly to continue in the 
same doctrine to the end of thy life ; and also dost 
thou reject all heresies and schisms, repugnant to 
this doctrine, and promise to persevere in the com- 
munion of our Christian Church, not only in the 
hearing of the Word, but also in the use of the 
Lord's Supper? 

Answer. Yes. 

Fifthly. Hast thou taken a firm resolution always 
to lead a Christian life ; to forsake the world and 
its evil lusts, as is becoming the members of Christ 
and His Church ; and to submit thyself to all Chris- 
tian admonitions? 

Answer. Yes. 

The Good and Great God mercifully grant His 
grace and blessing to this thy purpose, through 
Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Then the Minister of God's Word, in baptizing, shall say : 

, 1 baptize thee, iu the name of the 

Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, 
Amen. 

thanksgiving. 
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we give 
Thee most humble and hearty thanks that Thou 



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hast called us to the knowledge of Thy grace, and 
unto the faith of Thy Son, and unto the Covenant 
of salvation, wherein we are sealed by Holy Bap- 
tism. Give Thy Holy Spirit to these Thy servants, 
that, being born again and made heirs of God, they 
may keep themselves in Thy love, and receive the 
• fulfilment of Thy promises ; through our Lord Jesus 
Christ, Who, with Thee, O Father, and the Holy 
Ghost, the One Only True God, liveth and reigneth, 
world without end. Amen. 



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UTURGY. 



VI. 

'"THE PUBLIC RECEPTION INTO FULL COM- 
MUNION, OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN 
BAPTIZED IN INFANCY. 



The Candidates shall stand before the Minister. While they are coming for- 
ward, an appropriate hymn may he sung. 

Then the Minister will say : 

Dearly Beloved in Christ. As children of your 
Heavenly Father you stand here for the deliberate 
and public ratification in your own persons of that 
Covenant of God of which your Baptism is the seal. 
You have already been duly instructed, and have 
made confession before us of your faith in the Bles- 
sed Saviour. And now in this^tnost solemn manner, 
before God and His Church, you are to repeat and 
renew that confession. 

I ask each one of you, then : 

First. Dost thou believe in God the Father Al- 
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth ? 
Answer. I do. 

Secondly. Dost thou believe in Jesus Christ His 
only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the 
Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered 



RECEPTION INTO FULL COMMUNION. 



7* 



under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and 
buried ; He descended into hell ; the third day He 
rose again from the dead ; He ascended into heaven, 
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father 
Almighty ; from thence He shall come to judge the 
quick and the dead ? 
Answer, I do. 

Thirdly. Dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost ; 
the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints ; 
the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the 
body ; and the life everlasting ? 

Answer. I do. 

Fourthly. Dost thou purpose steadfastly to con- 
tinue to the end of thy life in the truth affirmed in 
these Articles of the Christian Faith as they are 
taught here in this Church, according to the Word 
of God, rejecting all heresies and schisms repug- 
nant thereto ? 

A?tswer. I do. 

Fifthly. Dost thou promise to persevere in the 
communion of the Christian Church, and in the 
diligent use of all the means of grace, especially in 
the hearing of the Word and the use of the Lord's 
Supper, to seek the things that make for purity and 
peace, and to submit thyself to all Christian care 
and admonition ? 

Answer. I do. 

Then the Minister will say : 

Since, then, thou hast witnessed this good confes- 
sion ; in the name of the Church and of Jesus 
Christ her Lord and Head, I do now welcome thee 
to full communion with the People of God. 



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LITURGY. 



[The following, or some other appropriate blessing, will then be used, given to 
each one separately, or to all together, as the Minister may choose.] 

The mountains shall depart and the hills be re- 
moved ; but My kindness shall not depart from 
thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be re- 
moved, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 

The Lord bless thee and keep thee ! 

The Lord make His face shine upon thee and be 
gracious unto thee ! 

The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee 
and give thee peace ! Amen. 

[The Minister will then offer the following Thanksgiving.] 

Almighty and Everlasting God, we thank and 
praise Thee that Thou hast vouchsafed unto these 
Thy servants, power and grace, to own and accept 
for themselves Thy holy covenant, sealed and con- 
firmed to them in their baptism. Strengthen them 
we beseech Thee with the Holy Ghost the Com- 
forter. Increase in them daily Thy manifold gifts 
of grace ; the spirit of wisdom and understanding, 
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of know- 
ledge and of the fear of the Lord. Keep them from 
the evil that is in the world. Defend them from 
the power of the devil. Enable them to walk in 
the Spirit, that they may not fulfil the lusts of the 
flesh ; and so lead them in the knowledge and obe- 
dience of Thy Word that they may obtain ever- 
lasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who, 
with Thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, 
ever one God, world without end. Amen. 



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n 



VII. 

The office for the administration 
of the lord's supper. 



I. 

Before the administration of the Holy Communion the Minister shall say : 

Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ, attend to the 
words of the institution of the Holy Supper of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, as they are delivered by the 
holy Apostle Paul, i Cor. xi : 23-30. 

" For I have received of the Lord that which 
also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the 
same night in which He was betrayed, took bread ; 
and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and 
said, Take, eat : this is My body, which is broken 
for you : this do in remembrance of Me. After 
the same manner, also, He took the cup when He 
had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament 
in My blood : this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in re- 
membrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this 
bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's 
death till He come. Wherefore, whosoever shall 
eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord un- 
worthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of 



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LITURGY. 



the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so 
let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup ; 
for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth 
and drinketh damnation* to himself, not discerning 
the Lord's body/' 

That we may now celebrate the Supper of the 
Lord to our comfort, it is above all things neces- 
sary : 

I. Rightly to examine ourselves. 

II. To direct the Supper to that end for which 
Christ hath ordained and instituted the same, 
namely, to His remembrance, 

The true EXAMINATION of ourselves consists of 
these three parts : 

First. That every one consider by himself his 
sins and the curse due to him for them, to the end 
that he may abhor and humble himself before God ; 
considering that the wrath of God against sin is so 
great, that, rather than it should go unpunished, 
He hath punished the same in His Beloved Son 
Jesus Christ, with the bitter and shameful death of 
the cross. 

Secondly. That every one examine his own heart, 
whether he doth believe this faithful promise of 
God, that all his sins are forgiven him only for the 
sake of the passion and death of Jesus Christ ; and 
that the perfect righteousness of Christ is imputed 
and freely given him as his own, yea, so perfectly 
as if he had satisfied in his own person for all his 
sins, and fulfilled all righteousness. 



* Greek, Kpt/xa — Dutch, Oordeel. Eng., judgment, condemnation. 



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75 



Thirdly. That every one examine his own con- 
science, whether he purposeth henceforth to show 
true thankfulness to God in his whole life, and to 
walk uprightly before Him ; as also, whether he 
hath laid aside unfeignedly, all enmity, hatred, and 
envy, and doth firmly resolve henceforth to walk in 
true love and peace with his neighbor. 

All those, then, who are thus disposed, God will 
certainly receive in mercy, and count them worthy 
partakers of the table of His Son Jesus Christ. 
On the contrary, those who do not feel this testi- 
mony in their hearts, eat «nd drink judgment to 
themselves. 

Therefore, we also, according to the command of 
Christ and the Apostle Paul, admonish all those who 
are defiled with the following sins, to keep them- 
selves from the table of the Lord, and declare to 
them that they have no part of the kingdom of 
Christ : such as all idolaters ; all those who invoke 
deceased saints, angels, or other creatures ; all those 
who worship images ; all enchanters, diviners, charm- 
ers, and those who confide in such enchantments ; 
alldespisers of God and His Word, and of the Holy 
Sacraments ; all blasphemers ; all those who are 
given to raise discord, sects, and mutiny, in church 
or state; all perjured persons; all those who are 
disobedient to their parents and superiors; all 
murderers, contentious persons, and those who 
live in hatred and envy against their neighbors ; 
all adulterers, whoremongers, drunkards, thieves, 
usurers, robbers, gamesters, covetous ; and all who 
lead offensive lives. 

All these, while they continue in such sins, shall 



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LITURGY. 



abstain from this meat, which Christ hath ordained 
only for the faithful, lest their judgment and con- 
demnation be made the heavier. 

But this is not designed, dearly beloved brethren 
and sisters in the Lord, to deject the contrite 
hearts of the faithful, as if none might come to the 
Supper of the Lord, but those who are without 
sin. For we do not come to this Supper to testify 
thereby that we are perfect and righteous in our- 
selves ; but on the contrary, considering that we 
seek our life out of ourselves, in Jesus Christ, we 
acknowledge that we lie in the midst of death. 
Therefore, notwithstanding we feel many infirmities 
and miseries in ourselves ; as namely, that we have 
not perfect faith, and that we do not give ourselves 
to serve God with such zeal as we are bound, but 
have daily to strive with the weakness of our faith, 
and the evil lusts of our flesh ; yet, since we are, 
by the grace of the Holy Ghost, sorry for these 
weaknesses, and earnestly desirous to fight against 
our unbelief, and to live according to all the com- 
mandments of God, therefore we rest assured that 
no sin or infirmity, which still remaineth, against 
our will, in us, can hinder us from being received 
of God in mercy, and from being made worthy 
partakers of this heavenly meat and drink. 



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II. 

Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
Let us now also consider to what end the Lord 
hath instituted His Supper, namely, that we do it 
in remembrance of Him. Now, after this manner 
are we to remember Him by it. 

i. That we be confidently persuaded in our 
hearts, that our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the 
promises made to our forefathers in the Old Testa- 
ment, was sent of the Father into the world : that 
He assumed our flesh and blood : that He bore for 
us the wrath of God, under which we should have 
perished everlastingly, from the beginning of His 
incarnation to the end of His life upon earth : that 
He fulfilled for us all obedience to the divine law, 
and righteousness, especially when the weight of 
our sins and the wrath of God pressed out of Him 
the bloody sweat in the garden, where He was 
bound that we might be freed from our sins : that 
He afterward suffered innumerable reproaches, 
that we might never be confounded ; that He, al- 
though innocent, was condemned to death, that we 
might be acquitted at the judgment-seat of God : 
yea, that He suffered His blessed body to be nailed 
on the cross, that He might affix thereon the hand- 
writing of our sins : that He also took upon Him- 
self the curse due to us, that He might fill us with 
His blessings : that He* humbled Himself unto the 
deepest reproach and pains of hell, both in body 
and soul, on the tree of the cross, when he cried 
out w r ith a loud voice, My God, My God ! why hast 



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LITURGY. 



thou forsaken me ? that we might be accepted ol 
God, and never be forsaken of Him : and finally 
that He confirmed, with His death and shedding of 
His blood, the new and eternal testament, that 
covenant of grace and reconciliation, when He 
said, is finished. 

2. And, that we might firmly believe that we be- 
long to this Covenant of Grace, the Lord Jesus 
Christ, in His Last Supper, " took bread, and when 
He had given thanks, He brake it, and gave it to 
His disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is My body 
which is broken for you, this do in remembrance 
of Me : in like manner also, after supper, He took 
the cup, gave thanks and said, Drink ye all of it; 
this cup is the new testament in My blood, which 
is shed for you and for many, for the remission of 
sins ; this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remem- 
brance of Me." That is, as often as ye eat of this 
bread, and drink of this cup, you shall thereby, as 
by a sure remembrance and pledge, be admonished 
and assured of this My hearty love and faithfulness 
toward you : that whereas you should otherwise 
have suffered eternal death, I have given My body 
to the death of the cross, and shed My blood for 
you ; and as certainly feed and nourish your hung- 
ry and thirsty soul with My crucified body and 
shed blood to everlasting life, as this bread is 
broken before your eyes, and this cup is given to 
you, and you eat and drink the same with your 
mouth, in remembrance of Me. 

From this institution of the Holy Supper of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, we see that He directs our faith 



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V) 



and trust to His Perfect Sacrifice, once offered on 
the cross, as to the only ground and foundation of 
our salvation; wherein He is become to our hung- 
ry and thirsty souls, the true meat and drink of life 
eternal. For by His death He hath taken away the 
cause of our eternal death and misery, namely, sin ; 
and obtained for us the Quickening Spirit, that we 
by the same, which dwelleth in Christ as the Head, 
and in us as His members, might have true com- 
munion with Him, and be made partakers of all 
His blessings, of life eternal, righteousness, and 
glory. 

Besides, that we, by the same Spirit may also be 
united as members of one Body, in true brotherly 
love ; as the holy Apostle saith, " For we, being 
many, are one bread and one body ; for we are all 
partakers of that one bread." For as out of many 
grains one meal is ground and one bread baked, and 
out of many berries being pressed together, one 
wine floweth and mixeth itself together ; so shall 
we all, who by a true faith are ingrafted into Christ, 
through brotherly love be altogether one body, for 
the sake of Christ, our Beloved Saviour, who hath 
so exceedingly loved us ; and shall show this, not 
only in word, but also in very deed toward one 
another. 

Hereto assist us, the Almighty God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, through His Holy Spirit ! 
Amen. 

That we ma)' obtain all this, let us humble our- 
selves before God, and with true faith implore His 
grace. 



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LITURGY. 



PRAYER. 

O Most Merciful God and Father, we beseech 
Thee, that Thou wilt be pleased, in this Supper, in 
which we celebrate the glorious remembrance of 
the bitter death of Thy Beloved Son Jesus Christ, 
to work in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, that 
we may daily, more and more, with true confidence, 
give ourselves up unto Thy Son Jesus Christ, so 
that our afflicted and contrite hearts, through the 
power of the Holy Ghost, may be fed and comfort- 
ed with His true body and blood; yea, with Him, 
True God and Man, that Only Heavenly Bread : and 
that we may no longer live in our sins, but He in 
us, and we in Him ; and thus truly be made partak- 
ers of the new and everlasting testament and cove- 
nant of grace : that we may not doubt that Thou 
wilt for ever be our Gracious Father, never more 
imputing our sins unto us, and providing us, as Thy 
beloved children and heirs, with all things neces- 
sary, as well for the body as the soul. Grant us 
also Thy grace, that we may take upon us our cross 
cheerfully, deny ourselves, confess our Saviour, and 
in all tribulations, with uplifted heads expect our 
Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, where He will 
make our mortal bodies like unto His most glorious 
body, and take us unto Him in eternit}^ 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy name: Thy kingdom come: Thy will 
be done in earth as it is in heaven: Give 
us this day our daily bread: and forgive 
us our debts, as we forgive our debtors : 



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81 



And lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, forever. amen. 

Strengthen us also by this Holy Supper in the 
Catholic undoubted Christian Faith, whereof we 
make confession with our mouths and hearts, 
saying : * 

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, 
Maker of heaven and earth ; 

And in Jesus Christ H is only Son our Lord ; 
who was conceived by the holy ghost, born 
of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius 
Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried ; He 

DESCENDED INTO HELL ; THE THIRD DAY He ROSE 

again from the dead ; he ascended into hea- 
ven ; and sitteth at the right hand of god 
the Father Almighty ; from thence He shall 
come to judge the quick and the dead. 

i believe in the holy ghost ; the holy 
Catholic Church, the communion of saints ; 
the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of 
the body ; and the life everlasting. amen. 

That we may be now fed with the True Heavenly 
Bread, Christ Jesus, let us not cleave with our hearts 
unto the external bread and wine, but lift them up 
on high in heaven, where Christ Jesus is our Advo- 
cate, at the right hand of His Heavenly Father, 
whither all the Articles of our Faith lead us ; not 

* The words "with our mouths and hearts " evidently require the audible 
confession of these ''Articles of the Christian Faith," both by the Minister 
and the people. And such was the ancient usage. It is recommended that 
It be restored. 



82 LITURGY. 

doubting that, through the working of the Holy 
Ghost, we shall as certainly be fed and refreshed in 
our souls with His Body and Blood, as we receive 
the holy bread and wine, in remembrance of Him. 

In breaking and distributing the bread, the Minister shall say : 

The bread which we break, is the communion 
of the Body of Christ. 

And when he giveth the cup : 

The cup of blessing, which we bless, is the com- 
munion of the Blood of Christ. 

During the Communion, a Psalm shall or may be devoutly sung, or some 
chapter read, in remembrance of the death of Christ, as Isaiah liii, John xiii, 
xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, or the like. 



III. 

After the Communion the Minister shall say : 

Beloved in the Lord, since the Lord hath now 
fed our souls at His table, let us therefore jointly 
praise His Holy Name, with thanksgiving, and 
every one say in his heart thus : 

Bless the Lord, O my soul ; 

And all that is within me, bless His Holy Name, 
Bless the Lord, O my soul ; 

And forget not all His benefits. 
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; 

Who healeth all thy diseases. 
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; 

Who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and ten- 
der mercies. 



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83 



The Lord is merciful and gracious ; 

Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 
He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; 

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 
For as the heaven is high above the earth ; 

So great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. 
As far as the East is from the West ; 

So far hath He removed our transgressions from 
us. 

Like as a father pitieth his children ; 
So the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. 

Who hath not spared His Own Son, but delivered 
Him up for us all, and given us all things with Him. 
Therefore God commendeth therewith His love 
toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ 
died for us ; much more then, being now justified by 
His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through 
Him. For, if, when we were enemies, we were recon- 
ciled to God by the death of His Son ; much 
more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His 
life. Therefore shall my mouth and heart show 
forth the praise of the Lord from this time forth for 
evermore. Amen. 

Let every one say with an attentive heart : 

O Almighty, Merciful God and Father, we ren- 
der Thee most humble and hearty thanks, that 
Thou hast, of Thine infinite mercy, given us Thine 
Only Begotten Son, for a Mediator and a Sacrifice 
for our sins, and to be our Meat and Drink unto life 
eternal ; and that Thou givest us lively faith, where- 
by we are made partakers of these Thy benefits. 



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Thou hast also been pleased, that Thy Beloved Son 
Jesus Christ should institute and ordain His Holy 
Supper for the confirmation of the same. Grant, 
we beseech Thee, O Faithful God and Father, that 
through the operation of Thy Holy Spirit, the com- 
memoration of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ 
may tend to the daily increase of our faith, and oi 
our saving fellowship with Him : Through Jesus 
Christ Thy Son, in whose Name we conclude our 
prayers, saying : 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy name : Thy kingdom come : Thy will 
be done in earth as it is in heaven: glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive 
us our debts, as we forgive our debtors: 
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil : for tliine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amek 



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VIII. 

Church Discipline. 



EXCOMMUNICATION. 

Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ, it is knDwn 
unto you, that we have several times, and by seve- 
ral methods declared unto you the great sin com- 
mitted, and the heinous offence given by our fellow 
member N., to the end that he, by your Christian 
admonition, and prayers to God, might be brought 
to repentance, and so be freed from the bonds of the 
devil by whom he is held captive, and be recovered 
by the will of the Lord. But we cannot conceal 
from you, with great sorrow, that no one has as yet 
appeared before us, who hath in the least given us 
to understand that he, by the frequent admonitions 
given him, as well in private, as before witnesses, 
and in the presence of many, is come to any remorse 
for his sins, or hath shown the least token of true 
repentance. Since then by his stubbornness, he 
daily aggravates his sin, which in itself is not small, 



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and since we lately signified unto you that in case 
he did not repent, after such patience shown him by 
the Church, we should be under the disagreeable 
necessit}^ of being further grieved for him, and 
should come to the last remedy : we at this present 
are necessitated to proceed to this excommunication, 
according to the command and charge given us by 
God in his Holy Word ; to the end that he may 
hereby be made, if possible, ashamed of his sins ; 
and likewise that we may not, by this rotten, and 
as yet incurable member, put the whole body of 
the Church in danger, and that God's Name may 
not be blasphemed. 

Therefore, we, the Ministers and rulers of the 
Church of God, being here assembled ; in the name 
and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, declare be- 
fore you all, that, for the aforesaid reasons we have 
excommunicated, and by these do excommunicate 
N. from the Church of God, and from the fellow- 
ship of Christ and of the Holy Sacraments, and 
from all the spiritual blessings and benefits, which 
God promises to and bestows upon His Church, so 
long as he obstinately and impenitently persists in 
his sins ; and he is therefore to be accounted by you 
as a heathen man and a publican, according to the 
command of Christ, who saith that whatsoever His 
ministers shall bind on earth, shall be bound in 
heaven. 

Further, we exhort you, beloved Christians, to 
keep no company with him, that he may be asham- 
ed ; yet count him not as an enemy, but at all times 
admonish him as you would a brother. In the 



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By 



mean time let every one take warning by this and 
such like examples, to fear the Lord, and diligently 
take heed unto himself, if he thinketh he standeth, 
lest he fall ; but having true fellowship with the 
Father and His Son Jesus Christ, together with all 
faithful Christians, remain steadfast therein to the 
end, and so to obtain eternal salvation ! You have 
seen, beloved brethren and sisters, in what manner 
this our excomunicated brother has begun to fall, 
and by degrees is come to ruin ; observe, therefore, 
how subtle Satan is, to bring man to destruction, 
and to withdraw him from all salutary means of 
salvation. Guard, then, against the least begin- 
nings of evil, " and laying aside every weight and 
the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run 
with patience the race that is set before us, looking 
unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. Be 
sober ; watch and pray, lest you enter into tempta- 
tion. To-day, if you will hear the voice of the 
Lord, harden not your hearts, but work out your 
own salvation with fear and trembling ; " and let 
every one repent of his sins, that our God may not 
humble us again, and we be obliged to bewail some 
one of you ; but that you, living with one accord 
in all godliness, may be our crown and joy in the 
Lord. 

Since it is God who worketh in us, both to will 
and to do of his good pleasure, let us call upon 
His Holy Name with confession of our sins, saying : 



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PRAYER. 

O Righteous God and Merciful Father, we be- 
wail our sins before Thy High Majesty, and acknow- 
ledge that we have deserved the grief and sorrow 
caused us by the cutting off of this our late fellow 
member; yea, shouldst Thou enter into judgment 
with us, we all deserve, by reason of our great 
transgressions, to be cut off and banished from Thy 
presence. But, O Lord, Thou art merciful unto us 
for Christ's sake ; forgive us our trespasses, for we 
heartily repent of them, and daily work in our 
hearts a greater measure of sorrow for them ; that 
we, fearing Thy judgments which Thou executest 
against the stiff-necked, may endeavor to please 
Thee. Help us to avoid all pollution of the world, 
and of those who are cut off from the communion 
of the Church, that we may not make ourselves 
partakers of their sins ; and grant that he, who is 
excommunicated, may become ashamed of his sins. 
And since Thou desirest not the death of a sinner, 
but that he may repent and live, and since the 
bosom of Thy Church is alway open for those, who 
turn away from their wickedness ; we, therefore, 
humbly beseech Thee, to kindle in our hearts a 
pious zeal, that we may labor, with Christian admo- 
nitions and examples, to bring again this excom- 
municated person into the right way, together with 
all those who, through unbelief or dissoluteness ol 
life, go astray. 

Give Thy blessing to our admonitions, that we 
may have reason thereby to rejoice again in him, 



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for whom we must now mourn ; and that Thy Holy 
Name may be praised, through our Lord Jesus 
Christ, Who hath taught us to pray: 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy name : Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be done in earth as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread: and forgive us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors: and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil : For Thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amen. 



II. 

READMITTING EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS 
INTO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. 

Beloved in the Lord, it is known unto you, that 
some time ago our fellow member N. was cut off 
from the Church of Christ ; we cannot now conceal 
from you, that he, by the above mentioned remedy, 
as also by the means of good admonition and your 
Christian prayers, is come so far, that he is ashamed 
of his sins, praying us to be re-admitted into the 
communion of the Church. 

Since we then, by virtue of the command of 
God, are in duty bound to receive such persons 
with joy, and it being necessary that good order 
should be used therein, we therefore give you to 
understand hereby, that we purpose to loose again 
the aforementioned excommunicated person from 



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LITURGY. 



the bond of excommunication, the next time when 
by the grace of God we celebrate the Supper of 
the Lord, and receive him again into the commu- 
nion of the Church ; except any one of you, in the 
mean time, shall show just cause why this ought not 
to be done, of which you must give notice to us in 
due time. In the mean time, let every one thank 
the Lord for the mercy shown this poor sinner, 
beseeching Him to perfect his work in him to his 
eternal salvation. Amen. 

Afterwards, if no impediment be alleged, the Minister shall proceed to the 
re-admission of the excommunicated person, in the followiut? manner : 

Beloved Christians, we have the last time in- 
formed you of the repentance of our fellow member 
N. to the end that he might with your foreknowl- 
edge be received into the Church of Christ ; and 
whereas no one has alleged any thing why his 
re-admission ought not to take place, we therefore, 
at present, purpose to proceed to the same. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matt. 18, having con- 
firmed the sentence of His Church, in the excom- 
munication of impenitent sinners, declareth imme 
diately thereupon, that whatsoever his Ministers shall 
loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven ; whereby He 
giveth to understand, that when any person is cut 
off from His Church he is not deprived of all hope of 
salvation ; but can again be loosed from the bonds 
of condemnation. Therefore, since God declares in 
His Word, that He takes no pleasure in the death of 
a sinner, but that he turn from his wickedness and 
live, so the Church always hopes for the repentance 
of the backsliding sinner, and keepeth her bosom 



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open to receive the penitent ; accordingly the 
Apostle Paul, I Cor. 5, commanded the Corinthian 
(whom he had declared ought to be cut off from 
the Church) to be again received and comforted, 
since being reproved by many, he was come to the 
knowledge of his sins : to the end that he should not 
be swallowed up with over-much sorrow. 2 Cor. 2. 

Secondly, Christ teaches us in the aforementioned 
text, that the sentence of absolution, which is passed 
upon such a penitent sinner according to the word 
of God ? is counted sure and firm by the Lord ; 
therefore, no one ought to doubt in the least, who 
truly repents, that he is assuredly received by God 
in mercy, as Christ saith, John, Chap. 20, Whose so- 
ever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. 

But now to proceed to the matter in hand : I ask 
thee, N. whether thou dost declare here with all 
thine heart before God and His Church, that thou 
art sincerely sorry for the sin and stubbornness, for 
which thou hast justly been cut off from the 
Church : whether thou dost also truly believe, that 
the Lord hath forgiven thee, and doth forgive thy 
sins for Christ's sake, and that thou therefore art 
desirous to be re-admitted into the Church of 
Christ, promising henceforth to live in all godliness 
according to the command of the Lord ? 

Answer. Yes, verily. 

Then the Minister shall further say, 

We, then, here assembled in the Name and 
authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, declare thee 
N. to be absolved from the bonds of excommunica- 
tion ; and do receive thee again into the Church of 



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LITURGY. 



the Lord, and declare unto thee that thou art in 
the communion of Christ and of the Holy Sacra- 
ments, and of all the spiritual blessings and benefits 
of God which He promiseth to and bestoweth 
upon His Church : may the Eternal God preserve 
thee therein, to the end, through His only begotten 
Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Be therefore assured in thy heart, my beloved 
brother, that the Lord hath again received thee in 
mercy. Be diligent henceforward to guard thyself 
against the subtlety of Satan, and the wickedness of 
the world, to the end that thou mayest not fall 
again into sin : love Christ, for many sins are for- 
given thee. 

And you, beloved Christians, receive this your 
brother with hearty affection ; be glad that he was 
dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found ; 
rejoice with the angels of heaven, over this sinner 
who repenteth : count him no longer as a stranger, 
but as a fellow citizen with the saints, and of the 
household of God. And whereas we can have no 
good of ourselves, let us, praising and magnifying 
the Lord Almighty, implore His mercy, saying, 

PRAYER. 

Gracious God and Father, we thank Thee, 
through Jesus Christ, that Thou hast been pleased 
to give this our fellow brother repentance unto life, 
nnd us cause to rejoice in his conversion. We 
beseech Thee, show him Thy mercy, that he may 
become more and more assured in his mind of the 



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93 



remission of his sins, and that he may leceive from 
thence inexpressible joy and delight to serve Thee. 
And whereas he hath heretofore by his sins offended 
many, grant that he may, by his conversion, edify 
many. Grant also that he may steadfastly walk in 
Thy ways, to the end ; and may we learn from this 
example, that with Thee is mercy, that Thou may- 
est be feared ; and that we, counting him for our 
brother and co-heir of life eternal, may jointly serve 
Thee with filial fear and obedience all the days oi 
our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose 
Name we thus conclude our prayer: 

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy name : Thy kingdom come : Thy will 
be done in earth, as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive 
us our debts, as we forgive our debtors: 
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil : for thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amen. 



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LITURGY. 



IX. 

Forms of Ordination. 



i. 

FOR ORDAINING THE MINISTERS OF GOD'S 

WORD. 

The sermon and the usual prayers being finished, the Minister shall thus speak 
to the Congregation : 

Beloved Brethren : it is known unto you, that 
we have now at three different times published the 
name of our brother N., here present, to learn 
whether any person had aught to offer concerning 
his doctrine or life, why he might not be ordained 
to the Ministry of the Word. And, whereas, no 
one hath appeared before us, who hath alleged 
any thing lawful against his person, we shall there- 
fore at present, in the Name of the Lord, proceed 
to his ordination. For which purpose, you N., 
and all those who are here present, shall first at- 
tend to a short declaration taken from the Word 
of God, touching the Institution and the Office 
of Pastors and Ministers of God's Word : 

Where, in the first place, you are to observe, that 
God our Heavenly Father, willing to call and 
gather a Church from amongst the corrupt race of 
men unto life eternal, doth by a particular mark of 
His favor use the ministry of men therein. There- 



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95 



tore the Apostle Paul saith, that the Lord Jesus 
Christ "gave some, apostles; and some, proph- 
ets ; and some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and 
teachers ; for the perfecting of the saints, foi the 
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body 
of Christ/' Here we see that the Holy Apostle 
among other things saith, that the Pastoral office is 
an Institution of Christ. 

What this Holy Office enjoins, may easily be ga- 
thered from the very name itself ; for as it is the 
duty of a common shepherd, to feed, guide, protect, 
and rule the flock committed to his charge ; so it is 
with regard to these spiritual shepherds, who are 
set over the Church which God calleth unto salva- 
tion, and counts as sheep of His pasture. The pas- 
ture with which these sheep are fed, is nothing but 
the preaching of the Gospel, accompanied with 
Prayer, and the administration of the Holy Sacra- 
ments. The same Word of God is likewise the staff 
with which the flock is guided and ruled. Conse- 
quently, it is evident that the office of Pastors and 
Ministers of God's Word is : 

First, That they faithfully explain to their flock, 
the Word of the Lord, revealed by the writings of 
the prophets and the apostles ; and apply the same, 
as well in general as in particular, to the edification 
of the hearers ; instructing, admonishing, comfort- 
ing, and reproving, according to every one's need ; 
preaching repentance towards God, and reconcilia- 
tion with Him through faith in Christ ; and refuting 
with the Holy Scriptures all schisms and heresies 
which are repugnant to the pure doctrine. All 



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this is clearly signified to us in Holy Writ ; for the 
Apostle Paul saith, that these labor in the Word ; 
and elsewhere he teaches that this must be done 
according to the measure [or rule] of faith. He 
writes also that a Pastor must hold fast and rightly 
divide the faithful and sincere Word which is ac- 
cording to the doctrine : " likewise, he that prophe- 
sieth [that is, preacheth God's Word], speaketh un- 
to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. ' 
In another place, he proposes himself as a pattern 
to Pastors, declaring that he " publicly, and from 
house to house, taught, and testified repentance to- 
wards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus 
Christ." But particularly we have a clear descrip- 
tion of the office of Ministers of God's Word, (2 
Cor. 5 : 18-20), where the Apostle thus speaketh, 
" And all things are of God, who hath reconciled 
us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us 
[namely to the Apostles and Pastors], the ministry 
of reconciliation ; to wit, that God was in Christ, 
reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing 
their trespasses unto them ; and hath committed 
unto us the word of reconciliation. Now, then, we 
are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did be- 
seech you by us : we pray you in Christ's stead, be 
ye reconciled to God." Concerning the refutation 
of false doctrine, the same Apostle saith (Tit. 1 : 9), 
that a Minister must " hold fast the faithful Word 
of God, that he may be able by sound doctrine both 
to exhort and convince the gainsayers." 

Secondly. It is the Office of the Ministers, publicly 
to call upon the Name of the Lord in behalf of the 



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whole congregation ; for that which the Aposties 
say, " We will give ourselves continually to prayer, 
and to the ministry of the Word/' is common to 
these Pastors and the Apostles; to which St. Paul, 
alluding, thus speaketh to Timothy : " I exhort, 
therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, 
intercessions and giving of thanks, be made for all 
men: for kings, and for all that are in authority," 
etc., (i Tim. 2 : 1, 2). 

Thirdly. Their Office is to administer the Sacra- 
ments which the Lord hath instituted as seals oi 
His grace; as is evident from the command given 
by Christ to the Apostles, and in them to all Pas- 
tors : " Baptize them in the Name of the Father, and 
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Likewise, 
" For I have received of the Lord that which also 
I delivered unto you," etc. 

Finally. It is the duty of the Ministers of the 
Word, to keep the Church of God in good disci- 
pline, and to govern it in such a manner as the 
Lord hath ordained. For Christ, having spoken 01 
the Christian discipline, says to His Apostles, 
" Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound 
in heaven." And St. Paul will have the Ministers 
know how to rule their own house, since they 
otherwise neither can provide for, nor rule the 
Church of God. This is the reason why the Pastors 
are in Scripture called Stewards of God and Bishops, 
that is, overseers and watchmen ; for they have the 
oversight of the house of God, wherein they are 
conversant, to the end that every thing may be 
transacted with good order and decency ; and, also, 



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LITURGY. 



that they may open and shut, with the keys of the 
Kingdom of Heaven committed to them, according 
to the charge given them by God. 

From these things may be learned, what a glori- 
ous work the Ministerial Office is ; since so great 
things are effected by it ; yea, how highly neces- 
sary it is for man's salvation : which is also the 
reason why the Lord will have such an Office always 
to remain. For Christ said when He sent forth His 
Apostles to officiate in this holy function, " Lo, I 
am with you alway, even unto the end of the 
world ;" where we see His pleasure is, that this 
Holy Office, (for the persons to whom he here speak- 
eth could not live to the end of the world), should 
always be maintained on earth. And, therefore, St. 
Paul exhorted Timothy, " to commit that which he 
had heard of him to faithful men, who should be 
able to teach others''; as he also, having ordained 
Titus, minister, further commanded him to "ordain 
elders in every city," (Tit. i : 5). 

Forasmuch therefore as we, for the maintaining 
of this office in the Church of God, are now to or- 
dain a new Minister of the Word, and have suffi- 
ciently spoken of the Office of such persons; there- 
fore you, N., shall answer to the following questions, 
to the end that it may appear to all here present, 
that you are inclined to accept of this Office as 
above described. 

First. I ask thee, dost thou feel in thy heart that 
thou art lawfully called of God's Church, and, 
therefore, of God Himself, to this Holy Ministry ? 

Secondly. Dost thou believe the books of the Old 



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99 



and New Testament to be the only Word of God, 
and the perfect doctrine unto salvation ; and dost 
thou reject all doctrines repugnant thereto? 

Thirdly. Dost thou promise faithfully to dis- 
charge thy office, according to the same doctrine as 
above described, and to adorn it with a godly life ; 
also, to submit thyself, in case thou shouldst be- 
come delinquent, either in life or doctrine, to eccle- 
siastical admonition, according to the public ordi- 
nance of the churches ? 

To which the Candidate shall give answer. 

Answer. Yes, truly, with all my heart. 

Then the Minister, who did demand those questions of him, and other Minis- 
ters who are present, shall lay their hands * on his head and say : 

God, our Heavenly Father, who hath called thee 
to this Holy Ministry, enlighten thee with His Holy 
Spirit ; strengthen thee with His hand ; and so gov- 
ern thee in thy Ministry, that thou mayest decently 
and fruitfully walk therein, to the glory of His 
Name, and the propagation of the Kingdom of His 
jon Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Then the Minister shall, from the pulpit, exhort the ordained Minister, and the 
congregation, in the following manner : 

Take heed, therefore, beloved brother and fellow- 
servant in Christ, unto yourself and to all the flock, 
over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Over- 
seer, to feed the Church of God which He hath 
purchased with His own blood : love Christ, and 



* This ceremony shall not be used in ordaining those who hare befoie been in 
the ministry. 



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LITURGY. 



leed His sheep, taking the oversight of them not by 
constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but 
of a ready mind ; neither as being lord over God's 
heritage, but as an example to the flock. Be an 
example of believers, in word, in conversation, in 
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Give attend- 
ance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Neg- 
lect not the gift that is in thee ; meditate upon 
these things ; give thyself wholly to them, that thy 
profiting may appear to all ; take heed to thy doc- 
trine, and continue steadfast therein. Bear pa- 
tiently all sufferings and oppressions, as a good sol- 
dier of Jesus Christ ; for in doing this thou shalt 
both save thyself and them that hear thee. And 
when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, thou shalt 
receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 

And you, likewise, beloved Christians, receive 
this your Minister in the Lord with all gladness, 
"and hold such in reputation." Remember that 
God Himself through him speaketh unto you and 
beseecheth you. Receive the word, which he, ac- 
cording to the Scripture, shall preach unto you, 
" not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the 
Word of God." Let the feet of those that preach 
the Gospel of Peace, and bring glad tidings of good 
things, be beautiful and pleasant unto you. Obey 
them that have the rule over you, and submit your- 
selves ; for they watch for your souls, as they that 
must give account, that they may do it with joy, 
and not with grief ; for that is unprofitable for 
you. If you do these things, it shall come to pass, 
that the peace of God shall enter into your houses. 



ORDINATION. 



TO! 



and that you, who receive this man in the name of 
a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward, and 
through his preaching, believing in Christ, you shall 
through Christ inherit life eternal. Since no man 
is of himself fit for any of these things, let us call 
upon God with thanksgiving: 

PRAYER. 

Merciful Father, we thank Thee that it pleaseth 
Thee, by the ministry of men, to gather a Church 
to Thyself unto life eternal, from among the lost 
children of men. We bless Thee for so graciously 
providing the Church in this place with a faithful 
Minister. We beseech Thee to qualify him daily 
more and more by Thy Holy Spirit, for the ministry 
to which Thou hast ordained and called him. En- 
lighten his understanding to comprehend Thy Holy 
Word, and give him utterance, that he may boldly 
open his mouth, to make known and dispense the 
mysteries of the Gospel. Endue him with wisdom 
and valor to rule aright the people over which he 
is set, and to preserve them in Christian peace ; to 
the end that Thy Church, under his administration 
and by his good example, may increase in number 
and in virtue. Grant him courage to bear the diffi- 
culties and troubles which he may meet with in his 
ministry ; that being strengthened by the comfort ot 
Thy Spirit, he may remain steadfast to the end, and 
be received with all faithful servants into the joy of 
His Master. 

Give Thy grace also to this people and Church, 



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LITURGY. 



that they may becomingly deport themselves to- 
wards this their Minister ; that they may acknowl- 
edge him to be sent of Thee ; that they may receive 
his doctrine with all reverence and submit them- 
selves to his exhortations ; to the end that they may, 
by his word, believing in Christ, be made partakers 
of eternal life. Hear us, O Father, through Thy 
Beloved Son, who hath taught us to pray : 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy name: Thy kingdom come: Thy will 
be done in earth as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors: and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amen 



ORDINATION. 1 03 



II. 

FOR ORDAINING ELDERS AND DEACONS * 

When Ordained at the same time ; if Ordained separately, this Form shall be used 
as occasion requires. 

Beloved Christians : you know that we have 
several times published unto you the names of our 
brethren here present, who are chosen to the office 
of Elders and Deacons in this Church, to the end 
that we might know whether any person had aught 
to allege, why they should not be ordained to their 
respective offices. And, whereas, no one hath ap- 
peared before us, who hath alleged anything lawful 
against them, we shall, therefore, at present, in the 
name of the Lord, proceed to their ordination. 

But first, you, who are to be ordained, and all 
those who are here present, shall attend to a short 
declaration from the Word of God, concerning the 
institution and the office of Elders and Deacons. 

Of the ELDERS it is to be observed, that the word 
Elder or Eldest (which is taken out of the Old Tes- 
tament, and signifieth a person who is placed in an 
honorable office of government over others) is ap- 
plied to two sorts of persons who administer in the 
Church of Jesus Christ : for the Apostle saith, " th- 
Elders that rule well shall be counted worthy o 
double honor, especially they who labor in the Word 
and doctrine." Hence, it is evident that there were 
two sorts of Elders in the Apostolic Church, the 



* Elders and Deacons may be re-elected ; but, in such case, need not be re,- 
ordained. — CONSTITUTION, IV., 7. 



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former whereof did labor in the Word and doctrine, 
and the latter did not. The first were the Ministers 
of the Word and Pastors, who preached the Gospel 
and administered the Sacraments ; but the others, 
who did not labor in the Word, and still did serve 
in the Church, bore a particular office, namely, that 
they had the oversight of the Church, and ruled the 
same with the Ministers of the Word. For St. Paul 
{Rom. 12:8), having spoken of the ministry of the 
Word, and also of the office of distribution or 
deaconship, speaketh afterwards particularly of this 
office, saying : " He that ruleth, let him do it with 
diligence." Likewise, in another place, he counts 
" governments " among the gifts and offices which 
God hath instituted in the Church (i Cor. 12:28). 
Thus we see that these sorts of Ministers are added 
to the others who preach the Gospel, to aid and 
assist them, as in the Old Testament the common 
Levites were to the priests in the service of the 
tabernacle, in those things which they could not 
perform alone ; notwithstanding, the offices always 
remained distinct one from the other. 

Moreover, it is proper that such men should be 
joined to the Ministers of the Word in the govern- 
ment of the Church, that thereby all tyranny and 
lording may be kept out of the Church of God, which 
may sooner creep in, when the government is placed 
in the hands of one alone, or of a very few. And 
thus, the Ministers of the Word, together with the 
Elders, form a body or assembly, being as a council 
of the Church, representing the whole Church ; to 
which Christ alludes when He saith : " Tell the 
Church;" which can in no wise be understood of all 



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and every member of the Church, in particular, but 
very properly of those who govern the Churchy out 
of which they are chosen. 

Therefore, in the first place, the office of the Elders 
is, together with the Ministers of the Word, to take 
the oversight of the Church, which is committed to 
them, and diligently to look, whether every one 
properly deports himself in his confession and con- 
versation ; to admonish those who behave themselves 
disorderly, and to prevent, as much as possible, the 
Sacraments from being profaned ; also to act, accord- 
ing to the Christian discipline, against the impeni- 
tent, and to receive the penitent again into the 
bosom of the Church : as it doth appear, not only 
from the above mentioned saying of Christ, but also 
from many other places of Holy Writ (as I Cor. 5, 
and 2 Cor. 2), that these things are not entrusted 
to only one or two persons, but to many who are 
ordained thereto. 

Secondly. Since the Apostle enjoineth, that all 
things shall be done decently and in order, amongst 
Christians, and that no other persons ought to serve 
in the Church of Christ but those who are lawfully 
called, according to the Christian ordinance ; there- 
fore it is also the duty of the Elders to pay regard 
to it, and in all occurrences which relate to the wel- 
fare and good order of the Church, to be assistant 
with their good counsel and advice to the Ministers 
of the Word ; yea, also, to serve all Christians with 
advice and consolation. 

Thirdly. It is also their duty particularly to have 
regard unto the doctrine and conversation of the 
Ministers of the Word, to the end that all things 



LITURGY. 



may be directed to the edification of the Church > 
and that no strange doctrine be taught, according to 
that which we read {Acts 20), where the Apostle ex- 
horteth to watch diligently against the wolves, 
which might come into the sheep-fold of Christ : for 
the performance of which the Elders are in duty 
bound diligently to search the Word of God : and 
continually to be meditating on the mysteries of 
faith. 

Concerning the DEACONS : of the origin and 
institution of their office we may read, Acts 6, where 
we find that the Apostles themselves did in the be- 
ginning serve the poor ; 6 at whose feet was brought 
the price of the things that were sold : and distribu- 
tion was made unto every man according as he had 
need. But afterwards, when a murmuring arose, be- 
cause the widows of the Grecians were neglected in 
the daily ministration/ men were chosen, by the ad- 
vice of the Apostles, who should make the service 
of the poor their peculiar business, to the end that 
the Apostles might continually give themselves to 
prayer, and to the Ministry of the Word. 

And this has been continued from that time for- 
ward in the Church, as appears from Rom. 12:8, 
where the Apostle, speaking of this office, saith, 
u He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity!' And 
(1 Cor. 12 : 28), speaking of "helps" he means those 
who are appointed in the Church to help and assist 
the poor and indigent in time of need ; from which 
passage we may easily gather, what the Deacons' 
office is ; namely : 

That they, in the first place, collect and preserve, 
with greatest fidelity and diligence, the alms and 



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goods which are given to the poor ; yea, use their 
utmost endeavors, that many good means be pro- 
cured for the relief of the poor. 

The second part of their office consists in distribu- 
tion ; wherein are required not only discretion and 
prudence, to bestow the alms only on objects of 
charity, but also cheerfulness and simplicity to as- 
sist the poor with compassion and hearty affection ; 
as the Apostle requires (Rom. 12, and 2 Cor. 9). 
For which end it is very beneficial, that they admin- 
ister relief to the poor and indigent, not only with 
external gifts, but also with comfortable words from 
Scripture. 

To the end, therefore, beloved brethren, X., N., 
that every one may hear that you are willing to 
take your respective offices upon you, ye shall an- 
swer the following questions : 

And in the first place, I ask you, both Elders and 
Deacons, whether ye feel in your hearts, that ye are 
lawfully called of God's Church, and consequently 
of God Himself, to these your respective holy 
offices. 

Secondly. Do ye believe the books of the Old and 
New Testament to be the only Word of God, and 
the perfect doctrine of salvation ; and do ye reject 
all doctrines repugnant thereto ? 

Thirdly. Do ye promise, agreeably to said doc- 
trine, faithfully according to your ability, to dis- 
charge your respective offices, as they are here de- 
scribed ; Ye Elders, in the government of the Church 
together with the Ministers of the Word : and ye 
Deacons, in the ministrations to the poor : Do ye 
also jointly promise to walk in all godliness, and to 



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submit yourselves, in case ye should become remiss 
in your duty, to the admonitions of the Church ? 

Upon which they shall answer : 

Yes. 

Then the Minister shall say : 

The Almighty God and Father replenish you all 
with His grace, that ye may faithfully and fruitfully 
discharge your respective offices. Amen. 

The Minister shall further exhort them, and the whole congregation, in the fol- 
lowing manner : 

Therefore, ye Elders, be diligent in the govern- 
ment of the Church, which is committed to you, and 
the Ministers of the Word. Be ye also, as watch- 
men over the house and city of God, faithful to ad- 
monish and to caution every one against his ruin. 
Take heed that purity of doctrine and godliness of 
life be maintained in the Church of God. 

And, ye Deacons, be diligent in collecting the 
alms, prudent and cheerful in the distribution of the 
same : assist the oppressed, provide for the true 
widows and orphans, show liberality unto all men, 
but especially to the household of faith. Be ye all 
with one accord faithful in your offices, and hold 
the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience, being 
good examples unto all the people. In so doing 
you will purchase to yourselves a good degree, and 
great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus ; 
and hereafter enter into the joy of your Lord. 

On the other hand, beloved Christians, receive 



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these men as the servants of God. Count the Eld- 
ers that rule well, worthy of double honor. Give 
yourselves willingly to their inspection and govern- 
ment. Provide the Deacons with good means to 
assist the indigent. Be charitable, ye rich ; give 
liberally, and contribute willingly. And, ye poor, be 
poor in spirit, and deport yourself respectfully to- 
wards your benefactors. Be thankful to them, and 
avoid murmuring. Follow Christ, for the food of 
your souls, but not for bread. Let him that stole, 
(or hath been burthensome to his neighbor,) steal no 
more ; but rather let him labor, working with his 
hands the thing which is good, that he may have to 
give to him that needeth. 

Each of you, doing these things in your respective 
callings, shall receive of the Lord, the reward of 
righteousness. But since we are unable of our- 
selves, let us call upon the name of the Lord, say- 
ing : 

PRAYER. 

O LORD God and Heavenly Father, we thank 
Thee that it hath pleased Thee, for the better edifi- 
cation of Thy Church, to ordain in it, besides the 
Ministers of the Word, rulers and assistants, by 
whom Thy Church may be preserved in peace and 
prosperity, and the indigent assisted ; and that Thou 
hast at present granted us in this place, men who 
are of good testimony, and we hope, endowed with 
Thy Spirit. We beseech Thee, replenish them 
more and more with such gifts as may be necessary 
for them in their ministrations ; with the gifts of 



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LITURGY. 



wisdom, courage, discretion, and benevolence; to 
the end that every one, may, in his respective office, 
acquit himself as is becoming ; the Elders, in taking 
diligent heed unto the doctrine and conversation, 
in keeping out the wolves from the sheepfold of 
Thy beloved Son, and in admonishing and reprov- 
ing disorderly persons : in like manner, the Deacons, 
in carefully receiving, and liberally and prudently 
distributing the alms to the poor, and in comfort- 
ing them with Thy Holy Word. Give grace both 
to the Elders and Deacons, that they may persevere 
in their faithful labor, and never become weary by 
reason of any trouble, pain, or persecution of the 
world. Grant, also, especially Thy divine grace to 
this people, over whom they are placed, that they 
may willingly submit themselves to the good ex- 
hortations of the Elders, counting them worthy of 
honor for their works' sake. Give also unto the rich 
liberal hearts towards the poor, and to the poor, 
grateful hearts towards those who help and serve 
them ; to the end that every one acquitting himself 
of his duty, Thy Holy Name may thereby be mag- 
nified, and the kingdom of Thy Son Jesus Christ, 
enlarged, in whose Name we conclude our prayers : 

Our Father which art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name : Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors : and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and 
the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen. 



INSTALLATION CF a MINISTER. 



1 i I 



X. 



Office for the installation 
of a minister. 



The sermon and usual prayers being ended, the Minister presiding shall say : 

Beloved brethren : it is known unto you that at 
three separate times, has been published to you the 
name of our brother, here present, to learn whether^ 
any person had aught to allege concerning his doc- 
trine or life, why he might not be installed Min- 
ister of this church : And whereas no lawful objec- 
tion has been presented, we shall, therefore, in the 
Name of the Lord, proceed to his installation. 

For His own glory in the salvation of men, it 
hath pleased our Lord Jesus Christ to institute va- 
rious offices in His Church. Accordingly, it is de- 
clared in Holy Scripture, that our ascended Lord 
hath given " some, apostles, and some, prophets, and 
some, evangelists, and some, pastors and teachers, 
for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the 
ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." 
Of these, in the present condition of the Church, 
the pastoral office is the first both in dignity and 



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responsibility. It is instituted by our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

It belongs to the Office of a Minister of Christ to 
present the worship of the people to God ; to read 
the Holy Scriptures in the public service ; to feed 
the flock committed to his charge with the pure 
Gospel of Christ ; to administer the Holy Sacra- 
ments agreeably to the institution of Christ ; to 
maintain Christian discipline ; to comfort them that 
are afflicted in mind, body, or estate ; to reclaim 
the erring, having compassion on the ignorant, and 
on them that are out of the way ; to teach, direct, 
counsel as a father, the children ; and thus, in all vi- 
gilant and faithful service to make full proof of his 
ministry. 

In the discharge of these holy functions, he is 
entitled to the respect, gratitude, love, and obedi- 
ence of the people of his charge. It is incumbent 
on them by the will and command of Him that sent 
him, to receive him as the ambassador of Christ. 
By a suitable maintenance to enable him to provide 
things honest in the sight of all men ; to keep him 
free of distracting care ; to guard jealously his re- 
putation ; to wait on his ministry with reverence 
and affection ; to help him by generous sympathy, 
and faithful fellow-working and earnest prayer ; to 
submit to his guidance ; to further his work, and to 
be followers of him as he is of Christ ; as the holy 
Apostle enjoins : 

" Obey them that have the rule over you, and 
submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls as 
they that must give account, that they may do it 



INSTALLATION OF A MINISTER. 



with joy and not with grief;" and again, u We be- 
seech you to know them which labor among you, 
and are over you in the Lord, and to esteem them 
very highly in love for their work's sake." 

To the end, then, beloved Brother and fellow-Min- 
ister of Christ, that it may appear that thou art 
willing to take the oversight of this flock of God 
to which He has called thee in His holy providence 
we demand of thee, in the presence of God and 
\hese witnesses : 

1. Dost thou believe the books of the Old and 
New Testament to be the only Word of God and 
the perfect doctrine unto salvation, and dost thou 
~eject all doctrines repugnant thereto? 

2. Dost thou promise faithfully to discharge thine 
office according to the same doctrine, and to adorn 
it with a godly life ; also to submit thyself, in case 
thou shouldst become delinquent either in life or 
doctrine, to ecclesiastical admonition, according to 
the public ordinance of the churches ? 

3. Wilt thou with the help of God, fulfil all 
the duty of a faithful Minister of Christ to this 
Church, preaching the Word of God in sincerity, 
administering the Holy Sacraments in purity ; main- 
taining proper discipline in the house of God ; and 
using thy whole endeavor to promote the denomi- 
national work and welfare of the Reformed Church 
in America? 

Tc which the Minister Elect shall give answer : 



Yes, truly, with all my heart. 



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LITURGY. 



Then the Minister presiding shall say : 

God, our Heavenly Father, who hath called thee 
to the Holy Ministry, and to take the oversight of 
this Church, enlighten thee with His Holy Spirit , 
strengthen thee with His hand ; and so govern thee 
in thy Ministry, that thou mayest decently and fruit- 
fully walk therein, to the glory of His Name, and 
to the advancement of the Kingdom of His Son 
Jesus Christ. Amen. 

The Church having been requested to arise, the Minister Presiding shall say : 

Inasmuch, Beloved Brethren and Members of this 
Church, as this most solemn procedure of investing 
our brother with the charge and oversight of you, 
involves, as well, obligations and duties on your part 
toward him : I ask of you before God and our Lord 
Jesus Christ : 

1. Do you hereby receive, in the Name of the 
Lord, His servant, our brother, to be your Min- 
ister ? 

2. Do you promise to receive the word of truth 
from his lips with meekness and love ; and to sub- 
mit to him in the due discharge of his Holy Office ? 

3. Do you promise to give him all proper love 
and obedience in the Lord ; to encourage and help 
him in his holy work; and to labor with him in 
faith and prayer, for the honor of Christ and the 
welfare of men ? 

4. Do you engage to continue to him, while he 
remains your Minister, competent worldly main- 
tenance, as you have promised, and whatever else 



INSTALLATION OF A MINISTER. 



the honor of religion and his comfort among you 
may require ? 

To which they shall give answer audibly : 

Yes! 

Then the Minister Presiding shall exhort the install*! Minister and Congrega- 
tion in the following manner : 

Take heed, therefore, beloved brother, and fel- 
low-servant in Christ, unto yourself and to all the 
flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you 
Overseer, to feed the Church of God which He hath 
purchased with His own blood : love Christ, and 
feed His sheep, taking the oversight of them not by 
constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but 
of a ready mind; neither as being lord over God's 
heritage, but as an example to the flock. Be an 
example of believers, in word, in conversation, in 
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Give attend- 
ance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Neg- 
lect not the gift that is in thee ; meditate upon 
these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy 
profiting may appear to all : take heed to thy doc- 
trine, and continue steadfast therein. Bear patient- 
lv all hardship, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and 
them that hear thee. And when the Chief Shep- 
herd shall appear, thou shalt receive a crown of 
glory that fadeth not away. 

And you likewise, beloved Christians, receive 
this your Minister in the Lord, with all gladness, 
"and hold such in reputation." Remember that 
God Himself, through him, speaketh unto you and 



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oeseecheth you. Receive the Word, which he, ac- 
cording to the Scripture, shall preach unto you, 
" not as the word of man, but (as it is in truth) the 
Word of God." Let the feet of those that preach 
the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good 
things, be beautiful and pleasant unto you. Obey 
them that have the rule over you, and submit your- 
selves ; for they watch for your souls, as they that 
must give account, that they may do it with joy 
and not with grief ; for that is unprofitable for you. 
If you do these things, it shall come to pass, that 
the peace of God shall enter into your houses, and 
that you who receive this man in the name of a 
prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward, and 
through his preaching, believing in Christ, you shall 
through Christ inherit life eternal. 

Since no man is of himself fit for any of these 
things, let us call upon God with thanksgiving : 

PRAYER. 

Merciful Father, we thank Thee that it pleaseth 
Thee, by the ministry of men, to gather a Church 
to Thyself unto life eternal, from amongst the lost 
children of men. We bless Thee for so graciously 
providing the Church in this place with a faithful 
Minister. We beseech Thee to qualify him daily 
more and more by the Holy Spirit, for the ministry 
to which Thou hast ordained and called him. En- 
lighten his understanding to comprehend Thy Holy 
Word, and give him utterance, that he may boldly 
open his mouth, to make known and dispense the 



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mysteries of the gospel. Endue him with wisdom 
and valor, to rule the people aright over whom he 
is set, and to preserve them in Christian peace; to 
the end that Thy Church, under his administration 
and by his good example, may increase in number 
and in virtue. Grant him courage to bear the diffi- 
culties and troubles which he may meet with in his 
ministry, that being strengthened by the comfort 
of Thy Spirit, he may remain steadfast to the end, 
and be received with all faithful servants into the 
joy of his Master. 

Give Thy grace also to this people and Church, 
that they may becomingly deport themselves to- 
wards this their Minister ; that they may acknow- 
ledge him to be sent of Thee; that they may re- 
ceive his doctrine with all reverence, and submit 
themselves to his exhortations : to the end that they 
may by his word, believing in Christ, be made par- 
takers of eternal life. Hear us, O Father, through 
Thy Beloved Son, who hath thus taught us to pray ; 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy name : Thy kingdom come : Thy will 
be done in earth as it 15 in heayen : glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors : and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amen. 



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LITURGY. 



The Presiding Officer shall then say : 

In the name of the Classis, I now declare that the 

Pastoral relation between the Rev. and the 

Church of is fully constituted, and that the 

Rev. is the lawfully installed Pastor of this 

Church. 



LAYING OF A CORNER-STONE. 119 



XL 

Office for the laying of the corner- 
stone of a church or chapel. 



The Minister officiating will begin the service with the Salutation : 

Grace be unto you and peace from God our 
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

After which he will say : 

Dearly Beloved : We are here assembled in the 
name of the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost, to lay the corner-stone of a house to be 
erected to His honor and service, and praise. With- 
in its walls His Holy Name is to be worshipped, His 
Holy Gospel is to be preached, and His Holy Sac- 
raments administered. Knowing that our help is 
the name of the Lord Who made heaven and earth, 
let us lift up our hearts unto Him in humble sup- 
plication for His blessing. 

PRAYER. 

O Almighty God, Who hast built Thy Church 
upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, 



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LITURGY. 



Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner- 
stone ; direct us in this our undertaking with Thy 
most gracious favor, and further us with Thy con- 
tinual help, that all our work being begun, con- 
tinued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy 
Holy Name ; and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain 
everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

Then shall be chanted or read respcnsively from the Scriptures of the Old Te* 
lament : 

PSALM 87. 

1. His foundation isin the holy mountains. 

2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more 
than all the dwellings of jacob. 

3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city ot 
God. 

4. i will make mention of rahab and 
Babylon to them that know me : behold 
Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia : this man 
was born there. 

5. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that 
man was born in her : and the Highest Himself shall 
establish her. 

6. The Lord shall count, when He writeth 
up the people that this man was born there. 

7. As well the singers as the players on instru- 
ments shall be there : all my springs are in Thee. 

And from the Scriptures of the New Testament, shall be read : 

1ST EPISTLE OF PETER 2 : 1-9. 
I. WHEREFORE, laying aside all malice, and all 



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121 



guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil- 
speakings, 

2. As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of 
the word, that ye may grow thereby : 

3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gra- 
cious : 

4. To Whom coming, as unto a Living Stone, dis- 
allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and pre- 
cious : 

5. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sac- 
rifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 

6. Wherefore also, it is contained in the scripture : 
Behold, I lay in Sion a Chief Corner-stone, elect, 
precious : and he that believeth on Him shall not be 
confounded. 

7. Unto you therefore which believe, He is pre- 
cious: but unto them which be disobedient, the 
stone which the builders disallowed, the same is 
made the Head of the corner, 

8. And a stone of stumbling-, and a rock of 
offence, even to them which stumble at the word, 
being disobedient ; whereunto also they were ap- 
pointed. 

9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priest- 
hood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye 
should shew forth the praises of Him who hath call- 
ed you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 

Then, any such historical or descriptive document as may have been prepared 
to be deposited in the Corner-stone may be read, and the stone having been 
Bet in its place, tbe Minister, laying his hand upon it, or striking it thrice 
with a mallet, shall say: 



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LITURGY. 



1 lay the Corner-stone of a house to be erected, 
and devoted to the service of Almighty God ; in 
the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost. Amen. 

Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid 
which is Jesus Christ. 

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in 
vain that build it. 

Then shall be repeated, in unison, the Apostle's Creed. 

I believe in God the Father Almighty, 

Maker of heaven and earth ; 

and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord , 
who was conceived by the holy ghost ; born 
of the Virgin Mary ; suffered under Pontius 
Pilate ; was crucified, dead and buried ; He 

DESCENDED INTO HELL ; THE THIRD DAY He ROSE 
AGAIN FROM THE DEAD ; He ASCENDED INTO HEAV- 
en ; and sitteth at the right hand of god 
the Father Almighty; from thence He shall 
come to Judge the quick and the dead. 

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the Holy 
Catholic Church, the communion of saints ; 
the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of 
the body; and the life everlasting. amen. 

After which may be 6ung a hymn. Then may follow an 

ADDRESS. 

After which shall be offered the concluding prayer : 

Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord, that it hath 
pleased Thee to put it into the hearts of Thy ser 



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vants to commence the erection of a house, in 
which Thy Name is to be worshipped, the Glad 
Tidings of salvation proclaimed, and Thy Holy Sac- 
raments administered. Prosper them, O Lord, 
in this their undertaking. Keep and preserve by 
Thy providence unto the end, the work, which is 
now begun in Thy fear. Excite the skill and ani- 
mate the industry of the workmen. Shield them 
from accident and danger. And grant unto them, 
and unto all of us here present, the influences of 
Thy Divine Spirit, so that we may become in soul 
and body, living temples of the Holy Ghost, and 
be prepared for that eternal city which hath foun- 
dations, whose Builder and Maker is God. All 
which we ask through the abundant merits of our 
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who liveth and 
reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One 
God, world without end. 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy name : Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be done in earth as it is in heaven : glve 
us this day our daily bread : and forgive us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors: and 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil : For Thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. amen. 



BENEDICTION, 



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LITURGY. 



XII. 

Office for the dedication of a house 
of worship. 



The usual Order of Service for the Lord's Day having been observed until 
after the reading of the Commandments, the following Lessons from Holy Scrip- 
ture shall then be read : 

i. — From the Psalter 

The Minister and People reading responsively. 

Psalm XXIV. 

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof ; the world, 
and they that dwell therein. 

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and estab- 
lished IT UPON THE FLOODS. 

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall 
stand in His holy place ? 

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart ; WHO 

HATH NOT LIFTED UP HIS SOUL UNTO VANITY, NOR SWORN 
DECEITFULLY. 

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteous- 
ness from the God of his salvation. 

This is the generation of them that seek Him, that 
seek thy face, o jacob, selah, 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lifted up, ye ever- 
lasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. 

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and 

MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE. 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlast- 
ing doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. 

Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He 
is the King of Glory. 



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Psalm CXXXII. 

1. Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions : 

2. HOW HE SWARE UNTO THE LORD, AND VOWED UNTO 
THE MIGHTY GOD OF JACOB ; 

3. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor 
go up into my bed ; 

4. I WILL NOT GIVE SLEEP TO MINE EYES, OR SLUMBER 
TO MINE EYELIDS, 

5. Until I find out a place for the Lord, a habitation for the 
mighty God of Jacob. 

6. LO, WE HEARD OF IT AT EPHRATAH : WE FOUND IT IN 
THE FIELDS OF THE WOOD. 

7. We will go into His tabernacles ; we will worship at His 
footstool. 

8. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest : thou, and the ark 
of Thy strength. 

9. Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness ; and let Thy 
saints shout for joy. 

10. For Thy servant David's sake turn not away 
The face of Thine Anointed. 

11. The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David : He will not 
turn from it ; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 

12. IF THY CHILDREN WILL KEEP MY COVENANT AND MY 
TESTIMONY THAT I SHALL TEACH THEM, THEIR CHILDREN 
SHALL ALSO SIT UPON THY THRONE FOR EVERMORE. 

13. For the Lord hath chosen Zion ; He hath desired it for 
His habitation. 

14. This is my rest for ever : here will I dwell 

FOR I HAVE DESIRED IT. 

15. I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her 
poor with bread. 

16. I WILL ALSO CLOTHE HER PRIESTS WITH SALVATION; 
AND HER SAINTS SHALL SHOUT ALOUD FOR JOY. 

17. There will I make the horn of David to bud : I have or- 
dained a lamp for Mine anointed. 

18. HIS ENEMIES WILL I CLOTHE WITH SHAME: BUT 
UPON HIMSELF SHALL HIS CROWN FLOURISH. 



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LITURGY. 



II. —From the Old Testament: 
Exod. 40 : 17-38 ; or, i Kings, 9 : 1-9. 

III. — From the New Testament: 
Heb. 13 : 10-21 ; or, Rev. 21 : 10-27. 

Then the Minister shall say : 

Dearly Beloved in the Lord: God our 
Heavenly Father, having in His grace, which is in 
Jesus Christ our Lord, brought to its consumma- 
tion our work of preparing a house for His worship, 
and the honor of His Holy Name ; within whose 
walls His Holy Gospel is to be truly preached and 
His Holy Sacraments are to be faithfully adminis- 
tered ; we are now gathered in His Hojy presence 
for the purpose of devoting it by a solemn act of 
worship to its proper and sacred use. I call upon 
you, therefore, to arise, and before the Lord, to unite 
in this act of dedication, confessing first, devoutly, 
our holy faith. 

The people uniting audibly with the Minister. 

I believe in God the Father Almighty, 
Maker of heaven and earth ; 

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our 
Lord ; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost ; 
born of the Virgin Mary ; suffered under 
Pontius Pilate ; was crucified, dead and 
buried ; He descended into hell ; the third 
day He rose again from the dead; He as- 



DEDICATION OF HOUSE OF WORSHIP. 



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cended into heaven, and sitteth at the right 
hand of God the Father Almighty: From 
thence he shall come to judge the quick 
and the dead. 

i believe in the holy ghost ; the holy 
Catholic Church, the communion of Saints ; 
the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of 
the body ; and the life everlasting. amen. 

Then the Minister shall offer the 

PRAYER OF DEDICATION. 

The People uniting audibly in the responses, which are printed in small capi 
tals. 

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Who 
art, and wast, and art to come, the whole earth is 
full of Thy .glory ! Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, 
and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and 
the majesty ; for all that is in the heaven and in the 
earth is Thine. Now, therefore, we thank Thee, O 
God, and praise Thy glorious Name. 

But who are we, that we should be able to offer 
so willingly after this sort? For all things come ot 
Thee, and of Thine own do we give Thee. O 
Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared 
to build Thee an house for Thine Holy Name, 
cometh of Thine hand and is all Thine own. 

Now behold, O Lord our God, and look unto 
this place where we are gathered in Thy Name : 
and have respect to the prayer of Thy servants and 
to their supplication, to hearken unto the cry and 



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LITURGY. 



the prayer that Thy servants pray before Thee this 
day, to take this house for Thine Own. 

Holy, Blessed, and Glorious Trinity, Three Per- 
sons in One God, 

To Thee we dedicate it. 
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Father 
Who art in Heaven, 

To Thee we dedicate it. 
Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father, 
Head of the Body, which is the Church ; Head 
over all things to the Church ; Prophet, Priest and 
King of Thy people, 

To Thee we dedicate it. 

God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father 
and the Son ; given to be our abiding Teacher, 
Sanctifier, and Comforter ; Lord and Giver of Life, 

To Thee we dedicate it. 

Arise, O Lord, into Thy rest, Thou and the ark 
of Thy strength. Let Thy priests be clothed with 
righteousness, and let Thy people shout for joy. 
Put Thy Name in this place. Sanctify it by Thy 
presence and Thy constant abiding. Give power 
and efficacy to Thy Gospel preached in it, and 
Thy Sacraments administered in it. Let Thine 
eyes be opened towards it ; and hearken unto the 
supplications of Thy people when they pray in this 
place, and hear Thou in Heaven Thy dwelling- 
place, and when Thou hearest, forgive. And from 
this outer court of Thy Holy Sanctuary bring Thy 
people and their children into the true tabernacle 
which the Lord pitched, and not man ; the heaven- 
ly temple, of which the Lord God Almighty and the 
Lamb are the light. We ask and offer all in the 



DEDICATION OF A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. T2(J 

Name of Thy Son our Saviour, Who hath taught 
us to pray : 

Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed 
be Thy Name: Thy kingdom come: Thy will 

BE DONE IN EARTH, As IT IS IN HEAVEN: GlVE 
US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD : AND FORGIVE 
US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS ; 
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER 
US FROM EVIL: FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND 
THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER. AMEN. 

Then shall follow the usual Order of Service, beginning with the Ilymr 
before the Sermon. 



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LITURGY. 



XIII. 

Office for the confirmation of mar- 
riage. 



Our help is in the Name of the Lord Who made 
heaven and earth. 

The Minister shall say to all present : 

Dearly Beloved, 

We are assembled, in the sight of God, to join to- 
gether this man and this woman in the bonds of 
Marriage : which is an honorable estate, instituted 
of God in the time of man's innocency, confirmed by 
the teaching of our Blessed Saviour, and compared 
by St. Paul to the mystical union which subsists be- 
tween Christ and His Church. 

Into this holy estate these two persons are come 
to be joined. Therefore, if any man can show any 
just cause why they may not lawfully be joined to- 
gether, let him now declare it, or else, hereafter, for 
ever hold his peace. 

And to those who come to be married : 

I charge you, each and both, as ye shall answer 
to Him Who will judge both quick and dead, if either 



CONFIRMATION OF MARRIAGE. 



of you know any reason why ye may not lawfully be 
joined together in marriage, declare it now. For, 
be well assured that all those who are brought to 
gether contrary to the Word of God, are not joined 
together of God, neither is their marriage lawful. 

If no sufficient impediment be alleged, the Minister shall say : 

Hear now what Holy Scripture doth teach, as 
touching the duty of husbands to their wives, and of 
wives to their husbands : 

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also 
loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He 
might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of 
water by the Word. So ought men to love their 
wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife 
loveth himself. For this cause shall a man leave his 
father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, 
and they two shall be one flesh. And, 

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands 
as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of 
the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Church. 
And He is the Saviour of the body. And again He 
saith, let the wife see that she reverence her hus- 
band. 

LET US PRAY. 
O Most Holy and Most Merciful Lord God ! we 
beseech Thee for these, Thy servant and handmaid, 
that they may, with a reverent trust in Thee, enter 
into the Covenant of Marriage, as they now propose, 
and truly keep all the vows which they are about to 
make, according to Thy Word. Grant this, O Father^ 
with the forgiveness of our sins, through Christ Thy 
Son. Amen, 



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LITURGY. 



Then the Minister shall bid the man and the woman join their right hands ; which 
being done, he shall say to the man : 

Dost thou, , take this woman, , 

before God and these witnesses, to be thy wedded 
wife ? 

The man shall answer, I DO, 

Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and keep 
her, in sickness and in health, and forsaking every 
other, cleave to her only, so long as ye both shall 
live? 

The man shall answer, I WILL. 

To the woman : 

Dost thou, , take this man, 1 — , be- 
fore God and these witnesses, to be thy wedded 
husband ? 

The woman shall answer, I DO. 

Wilt thou love him, honor him, obey him, and 
keep him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking 
every other, cleave to him only, so long as ye both 
shall live ? 

The woman shall answer, I WILL. 

Then, when a ring is used, the Minister shall guide the hand of the man to put the 
ring on the third finger of the woman's left hand, and holding it there, the man 
shall say, after the Minister : 

With this ring I thee wed ; in the Name of the 
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

Then, taking their clasped right hands in his hand, the Minister shall say : 

Forasmuch as you, , and you, , 

have consented together, after God's Holy Ordi- 
nance of Marriage ; and have plighted your faith 
and truth to each other, in the presence of God and 



CONFIRMATION OF MARRIAGE. 1 33 

of these witnesses ; and have confirmed the same by 
giving and receiving a ring ; now, therefore, I pro- 
nounce you husband and wife. In the Name of the 
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

Whom, therefore, God hath joined together, let 
not man put asunder. 

LET US PRAY. 

O Faithful God, who keepest covenant and truth 
with them that love Thee, hear Thou in heaven Thy 
dwelling-place, this marriage vow which Thy servant 
and handmaid have vowed before Thee. And grant 
unto them the grace of Thy Good Spirit, that with 
all fidelity they may observe and keep it ; walking 
together in Thy faith and fear ; being led by the 
Angel of Thy presence, and strengthened by Thy 
hand, until they come to the inheritance of the 
saints in light: through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who 
has commanded us to pray, saying: 

Our Father who art in Hfayen, Hallowed 
be Thy name: Thy kingdom come: Thy will 
be done in earth, as it is in hfaven : glye us 
this day our daily bread : and forgiye us our 
debts, as we forgive our debtors : and lead 
us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the 
power, and the glory, for ever. amen. 

And the Minister shall pronounce over them this benediction : 

The blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the 
Son, and the Holy Ghost, be upon you, and remain 
with you always. Amen. 



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LITURGY. 



XiV. 

Office for the burial of the dead 



On entering the church, the Minister may us^ the following Sentences. 

Or, if all the services be performed at the house, he may begin with these Sen- 
tences. 

I AM the Resurrection and the Life, saith the 
Lord ; he that believeth in Me, though he were 
dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and 
believeth in Me, shall never die. 

None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth 
to himself; for whether we live, we live unto the 
Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : 
whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's. 
For to this end Christ both died and rose, and re- 
vived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and 
living. 

We brought nothing into this world, and it is 
certain we can carry nothing out. 

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; 
blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

Then may be read, or chanted. 

PSALM XC. 

i. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in 
all generations. 



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i ' '. 

2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or 
ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. 

3. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, 
Return, ye children of men. 

4. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as 
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the 
night. 

5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they 
are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass 
which groweth up. 

6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up, 
in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 

7. For we are consumed by Thine anger, and by 
Thy wrath are we troubled. 

8. Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our 
secret sins in the light of Thy countenance. 

9. For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath : 
we spend our years as a tale that is told. 

10. The days of our years are threescore years 
and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be four- 
score years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow ; 
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 

11. Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? 
even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath. 

12. So teach us to number our days, that we may 
apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

Then the Minister shall say : 

Hear the Word of God as it is written in the fifteenth chapter of St. Paul's first 
Epistle to the Corinthians, beginning with the thirty-fifth verse : 

But some man will say, How are the dead raised 
up? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool, 



i3 6 



LITURGY. 



that which thou sovvest is not quickened except it 
die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not 
that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may 
chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God 
giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to 
every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same 
flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another 
flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial : 
but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of 
the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the 
sun, and another glory of the moon, ar<l another 
glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another 
star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the 
dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in in- 
corruption ; It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in 
glory : it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power : 
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual 
body. There is a natural body, and there is a spirit- 
ual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam 
was made a living soul ; the last Adam was made a 
Quickening Spirit. Howbeit, that was not first 
which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and 
afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is 
of the earth, earthy : the second Man is the Lord 
from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also 
that are earthy : and as is the Heavenly, such are 
they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne 
the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the im- 
age of the Heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, 
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of 
God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 



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^37 



Behold, I show you a mystery ; we shah not all 
sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in 
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised 
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this 
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mor- 
tal must put on immortality. So when this corrup- 
tible shall have put on incorruption, and this mor- 
tal shall have put on immortality, then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is 
swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy 
sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting ot 
death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the law. But 
thanks be to God, Which giveth us the victory, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my be- 
loved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always 
abounding in the work of the Lord ; forasmuch as 
ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 

[for a child.] 

Hear the Gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ, iu reference to little children. 

And they brought young children to Him, that 
He should touch them ; and His disciples rebuked 
those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it 
He was much displeased, and said unto them, 
Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and for- 
bid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. 
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive 
the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not 
enter therein. And He took them up in His arms, 
put His hands upon them, and blessed them. 

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little 



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LITURGY. 



ones ; for I say unto you, that in heaven their 
angels do always behold the face of My Father 
which is in heaven. 

For the Son of Man is come to save that which 
was lost. How think ye ? If a man have a hundred 
sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not 
leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the moun- 
tains and seeketh that which is gone astray ? And 
if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he re- 
joiced! more of that sheep, than of the ninety and 
nine which went not astray. Even so, it is not the 
will of your Father which is in heaven, that one 01 
these little ones should perish. 

Thereiore are they before the throne of God, and 
serve Him day and night in His temple: and He 
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
more ; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any 
heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the 
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto 
living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe 
away all tears from their eyes. 

The Lord gave ; and the Lord hath taken away ; 
blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

After the reading of Holy Scripture the Minister shall say : 

Let us pray. 

Almighty and Most Merciful God, the conso- 
lation of the sorrowful, and the support of the weary, 
Who dost not willingly grieve or afflict the children 
of men ; look down in tender love and pity, we be- 
seech Thee, upon Thy servants, this bereaved 



BURIAL OF THE DEAD, 



*39 



household, whose joy is turned into mourning; and 
according to the multitude of Thy mercies be 
pleased to uphold, strengthen, and comfort them, 
that they may not faint under Thy Fatherly chast- 
ening, but find in Thee their strength and refuge ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Am EX. 

Our Father which art in heaven, Hal- 
lowed be Thy Name: Thy kingdom come : Thy 
will be done ix earth, as it is in heaven : glye 
us this day our daily bread : and forgiye us 
our debts, as we forgive our debtors : axd 
lead us xot ixto temptation', but deliver us 
from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and 
the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen. 

Then mav follow an ADDRESS. 

After which the Minister shall say : Let US pray. 

Almighty God, with Whom do live the spirits of 
those who depart hence in the Lord, and with Whom 
the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered 
from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; 
we give Thee hearty thanks for the good examples 
of all those Thy servants, who, having finished their 
course in faith, do now rest from their labors. And 
we beseech Thee, that we, with all those who are 
departed in the true faith of Thy Holy Name, may 
have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in 
body and soul, in Thy eternal and everlasting glory ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

O Thou Eyer-Blessed Mediator, Who wast 
dead, but livest forever, of Whom the whole family 



LITURGY. 



in heaven and earth is named, and Who hast knit all 
Thy saints in one communion unto life eternal, in 
that mystical Body of which Thou art the glorious 
and ever-living Head ; grant us grace so to follow 
Thy blessed saints, who have gone before us, in the 
faith and. fellowship of Thy Holy Church, that we 
may come to those unspeakable joys, which Thou 
hast prepared for all that love Thee, from the founda- 
tion of the world. AMEN. 

O God, Whose days are without end, and Whose 
mercies cannot be numbered ; make us, we beseech 
Thee, deeply sensible of the shortness and uncer- 
tainty of human life ; and let Thy Holy Spirit lead 
us through this vale of misery, in holiness and right- 
eousness all the days of our lives : that when we 
shall have served Thee in our generation, we may 
be gathered unto our fathers, having the testimony 
of a good conscience ; in the communion of the 
Christian Church ; in the confidence of a certain 
faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and 
holy hope ; in favor with Thee our God, and in 
perfect charity with the world : all which we ask 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Then standing near the coffin, or having reached the place of burial, the Minister 
will say : 

In the midst of life we are in death ! 
What helper shall we seek but Thee, O Lord, 
Who because of our sins art justly angry ! 
O Holy God, Holy and Strong, Holy and Com- 
passionate Saviour, 

Give us not over to bitter death ! 



BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 



Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the body by some standing by, the Min- 
ister will say : 

Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to 
take out of this world the soul of our departed 
brother, we therefore commit his body to the 
ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to 
dust ; looking for the general Resurrection in the 
last day, and the Life of the world to come, through 
our Lord Jesus Christ ; at Whose second coming in 
glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and 
the sea shall give up their dead; and the corrupti- 
ble bodies of those who sleep in Him shall be 
changed, and made like unto His glorious body ; 
according to the working whereby He is able even 
to subdue all things unto Himself. 

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He 
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And 
though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet 
in my flesh shall I see God ; Whom I shall see for 
myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. 

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, 
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow 
not, even as others which have no hope. For if we 
believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so 
them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with 
Him. 

Let us pray. 

Almighty God, Who, by the death of Thy dear 
Son Jesus Christ, hast destroyed death ; by His rest 
in the tomb hast sanctified the graves of the saints ; 



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and by His glorious resurrection hast brought life 
and immortality to light : receive, we beseech Thee, 
our unfeigned thanks for that victory over death 
and the grave, which He has obtained for us, and 
for all who sleep in Him ; and keep us in everlast- 
ing fellowship with all that wait for Thee on earth, 
and with all that are around Thee in heaven ; in 
union with Him who is the Resurrection and the 
Life ; Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the 
Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. 
Amen. 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Who, in 
Thy perfect wisdom and mercy, hast ended for Thy 
servants departed, the voyage of this troublous life ; 
grant, we beseech Thee, that we who are still to 
continue our course amidst earthly dangers, temp- 
tations, and troubles, may evermore be protected 
by Thy mercy; and finally come to the haven of 
eternal salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love 
of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be 
with you all, evermore. Amen. 



f 



THE BOOK OF PSALMS. 



THE 



BOOK OF PSALMS; 

ARRANGED FOR 

RESPONSIVE READING 

IN 

Public Worship. 



NEW YORK : 

Board of Publication, R. C. A. 
1882. 



NOTE. 



The Psalms, as here arranged, are intended to be 
read by the Minister and the People responsively, accord- 
ing to their original structure and design. 

The lines printed in the Roman letter are to be 
read by the Minister. 

The lines set inward from the margin, and printed 
in Italics, are to be read by the People. 

The lines printed in small capitals are to be read 
by the Minister and the People together. 



The Book of Psalms. 



Psalm I. 

gLESSED is the man that walketh not in the 
counsel of the ungodly, 
Nor standetk in the way of sinners > 
Nor sitteth in t lie seat of the scornful. 

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD ; 

And in his law doth lie meditate day and night. 

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers 

of water, 

That bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; 
His leaf also shall not wither ; 

A nd whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

4 The ungodly are not so : 

But are like the chaff which the wind driveth 
away. 

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judg- 

ment, 

Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, 

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous ; 

But the way of the ungodly shall perish. 



2 PSALMS. 

Psalm II. 

\\7 H Y do the heathen rage, 

And the people imagine a vain thing? 

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, 

And the rulers take counsel together, 
Against the Lord and against his Anointed % 
saying, 

3 Let us break their bands asunder, 

And cast away their cords from us, 

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh : 

The Lord shall have them in derision. 

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, 

And vex them in his sore displeasure. 

6 Yet have I set my king 

Upon my holy hill of Zion. 

7 I will declare the decree : 

The LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my son ; 
This day have I begotten thee. 

8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for 

thine inheritance, 
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy 
possession. 

9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron ; 

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's 
vessel. 

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : 

Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 

1 1 Serve the Lord with fear, 

And rejoice with trembling. 

12 Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish from 

the way, 

When his wrath is kindled but a little. 

Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. 



PSALMS. 



3 



Psalm III. 

T ORD, how are they increased that trouble me! 

Many arc they that rise up against vie. 

2 Many there be which say of my soul, 

There is no help f&r him in God. 

3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me ; 

My glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 

4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, 

And he heard me out of Ids holy hilL 

5 I laid me down and slept ; 

I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 

6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, 

That have set themselves against me round about. 

7 Arise, O LORD ; save me, O my God : 

For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the! 
cheek bone ; 
Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 

8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord ; 

Thy blessing is upon thy people. 

Psalm IV. 

IT EAR me when I call, O God of my righteous- 
ness : 

Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress ; 

Have mercy upon me and hear my prayer. 

2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory 

into shame? 
How long will ye love vanity, and seek after 
leasing ? 

3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that 

is godly for himself? 
The Lord will hear when I call unto Jiim. 



4 PSALMS. 

4 Stand in awe, and sin not : 

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, 
and be still. 

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, 

And put your trust in the LORD. 

6 There may be many that say, Who will shew us 

any good? 

LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance 
upon us. 

7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, 

More than in the time that their corn and their 
wine increased. 

8 I will both lay me down in peace and sleep. 

For thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. 

Psalm V. 

I VE ear to my words, O LORD ; 
Consider my meditation. 

2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King and 

my God : 
For unto thee will I pray. 

3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O 

Lord ; 

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto 
thee, and will look up. 

4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in 

wickedness : 
Neither shall evil dwell with thee. 

5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight : 

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 

6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing : 

The LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful 
man. 



PSALMS. 



5 



7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the 

multitude of thy mercy: 
And in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy 
temple. 

8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because 

of mine enemies ; 
Make thy way straight before my face. 

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth ; their 

inward part is very wickedness. 
Their throat is an open sepulchre ; they flatter 
with their tongue. 

10 Destroy thou them, O God ; let them fall by 

their own counsels ; 
Cast them out in the multitude of their transgres- 
sions ; for they have rebelled against thee. 

1 1 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice : 
Let them ever shout for joy, because thou de- 

fendest them: 
Let them also that love thy name be joy fid in thee. 

12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous ; 

With favor wilt thou compass him as with a 
shield. 



Psalm VI. 

LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, 

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; for I am weak : 

0 LORD, heal me ; for my bones are vexed. 

3 My soul is also sore vexed : 

But thou, O Lord, how long? 

4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul : 

Oh save me for thy mercies' 1 sake. 



u 



PSALMS. 



5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee : 

In the grave who shall give thee thanks ? 

6 I am weary with my groaning ; all the night make 

I my bed to swim ; 
/ water my couch with my tears. 

7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief ; 

It waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 

8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity ; 

For the Lord hath heard the voice of my weep- 
ing. 

9 The LORD hath heard my supplication ; 

The Lord will receive my prayer. 
io Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed : 
Let them return and be ashamed suddenly. 



Psalm VII. 

f~\ LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust : 

Save me from all them that persecute me, and 
deliver me : 

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, 

Rending it in pieces, while there is none to 
deliver. 

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this ; 

If there be iniquity in my hands ; 

4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at 

peace with me ; 
( Yea, I have delivered him that without cause is 
mine enemy ;) 

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it ; 

Yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, 
and lay mine honor in the dust* 



PSALMS. 



7 



6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself 

because of the rage of mine enemies: 
And awake for me to the judgment that tliou 
hast commanded, 

7 So shall the congregation of the people compass 

thee about : 
For their sakes therefore, return thou on high. 

8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O 

Lord, according to my righteousness, 
And according to mine integrity that is in me. 

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an 

end; but establish the just : 
For the righteous God trieth the heart and reins. 

10 My defence is of God, 

Which saveth the upright in heart. 

11 God judgeth the righteous, 

A nd God is angry with the wicked every day. 

12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; 

He hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments 

of death ; 

He ordaineth his arrows against tJie persecutors. 

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath 

conceived mischief, 
And brought forth falsehood. 

15 He made a pit, and digged it, 

And is fallen into the ditch which he made. 

16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, 

And his violent dealing shall come down upon his 
own pate. 

17 I will praise the Lord according to his right- 

eousness : 

And will sing praise to the name of the Lord 
most high. 



8 



PSALMS. 



Psalm VIII. 
LORD our Lord, 

How excellent is thy name in all the earth ! 

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast 

thou ordained strength, 
Because of thine enemies, 

That thou might est still the enemy and the 
avenger. 

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy 

fingers, 

The moon and the stars, which thou hast 
ordained ; 

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? 

And the son of man, that thou visitest him ? 

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the 

angels, 

And hast crowned him with glory and honor. 

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the 

works of thy hands ; 
Thou hast put all things under his feet : 

7 All sheep and oxen, 

Yea, and the beasts of the field ; 

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, 

And whatsoever pas set h through the paths of 
the seas. 

9 O Lord, our Lord, 

How excellent is thy name in all the earth ! 



PSALMS. 



9 



Psalm IX. 

T WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole 
heart ; 

/ will shew forth all thy marvellotis works. 

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : 

/ will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High, 

3 When mine enemies are turned back, 

They shall fall and perish at thy presence. 

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my 

cause ; 

Thou satest in the throne judging right. 

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast 

destroyed the wicked, 
Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 

6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a 

perpetual end ; 
And thou hast destroyed cities ; their memorial is 
perished with them. 

7 But the Lord shall endure for ever ; 

He hath prepared his throne for judgment. 

8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, 

He shall minister judgment to the people in 
uprightness. 

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, 

A refuge in times of trouble. 

10 And they that know thy name will put their trust 

in thee : 

For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek 
thee. 

11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in 

Zion : 

Declare among the people his doings. 



IO 



PSALMS. 



12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he 

remembereth them : 
He forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 

13 Have mercy upon me, 0 Lord; consider my 

trouble which I suffer of them that hate me. 
Thou that lift est me up from t lie gates of death: 

14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates 

of the daughter of Zion : 
/ will rejoice in thy salvation. 

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they 

made : 

In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 

16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he 

executeth : 

The wicked is snared in the work of J lis own 
hands. 

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, 

A nd all the nations that forget God. 

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, 

The expectation of the poor shall not perish for 
ever. 

19 Arise, O Lord ; let not man prevail : 

Let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 

20 Put them in fear, O LORD: 

That the nations may know themselves to be but 
men. 

Psalm X. 

"yy^HY standest thou afar off, O Lord ? 

Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: 

Let them be taken in the devices that they have 
imagined,. 



PSALMS. II 

3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, 

And blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD 
abhorreth. 

4 The wicked, through the pride of his coun- 

tenance, will not seek after God : 
God is not in all his thoughts. 

5 His ways are always grievous ; thy judgments are 

far above out of his sight : 
As for all his enemies, lie puffeth at them. 

6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved : 

For I shall never be in adversity. 

7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud : 

Under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 

8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages : 

In the secret places doth he murder the 

innocent : 

His eyes are privily set against the poor. 

9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den : 

He lieth in wait to catch the poor: 
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into 
his net. 

10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, 

That the poor may fall by his strong ones. 

1 1 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten : 

He hideth his face ; he will never see it. 

12 Arise, O LORD ; O God, lift up thine hand: 

Forget not the humble. 

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God ? 

He hath said in his lie art, Thou wilt not 
require it. 

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief 

and spite, to requite it with thy hand : 
The poor committeth himself unto thee ; thou art 
the helper of the fatherless. 



1 2 PSALMS. 

15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil 

man : 

Seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 

16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: 

The heathen are perished out of his land. 

17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble : 

Thou wilt prepare their heart , thou wilt cause 
thine ear to hear : 

18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, 

That the man of the earth may no more oppress. 

Psalm XL 

JN the Lord put I my trust: 

How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your 
mountain ? 

2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make 

ready their arrow upon the string, 
That they may privily shoot at the upright in 
heart. 

3 If the foundations be destroyed, 

What can the righteous do ? 

4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's 

throne is in heaven : 
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of 
men. 

5 The LORD trieth the righteous : 

But the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his 
soul haieth. 

6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and 

brimstone, and a horrible tempest : 
This shall be the portion of their cup. 

7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness ; 

His countenance doth behold the upright. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XII. 

T J ELP, LORD ; for the godly man ccascth ; 

For the faithful fail from among the children of 
men. 

2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor : 

With flattering lips and with a double lie art do 
they speak. 

3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, 

And the tongue that speaketh proud things : 

4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail ; 

Our lips are our own ; who is lord over us ? 

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing 

of the needy, now will I arise, saith the 
Lord ; 

/ will set him in safety from him that puffeth at 
him. 

6 The words of the Lord are pure words : 

As silver tried in a fur?iaee of earth, purified 
seven times. 

7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, 

Thou shalt preserve them from this generation 
for ever. 

8 The wicked walk on every side, 

When the vilest men are exalted. 

Psalm XIII. 




OW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord ? for 
ever ? 



How long wilt thou hide thy face from me ? 
2 How long shall I take counsel of my soul, having 
sorrow in my heart daily ? 
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me ? 



t4 



PSALMS. 



3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God : 

Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. 

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against 

him ; 

And those that trouble me rejoice when I am 
moved. 

5 But I have trusted in thy mercy ; 

My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. 

6 I will sing unto the LORD, 

Because he hath dealt bountifully with me* 

Psalm XIV. 

'THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. 

They are corrupt, they have done abominable 
works, there is none that doeth good. 
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the 
children of men, 
To see if there were any that did understand, and 
seek God. 

■ 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together 
become filthy : 
There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? 

Who eat up my people as they eat bread, and 
call not upon the LORD. 

5 There were they in great fear : 

For God is in the generation of the righteous. 

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, 

Because the LORD is his refuge. 

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of 

Zion ! when the LORD bringeth back the 
captivity of his people, 
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. 



PSALMS. 



'5 



Psalm XV. 



T ORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? 

Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 

2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh right- 

eousness, 
And speakcth the truth in his lie art. 

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, 
Nor doeth evil to his neighbor, 

Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. 

4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; 

But he honoreth them that fear the Lord. 
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth 



5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, 
Nor taketh reward against the innocent. 

He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 



DRESERVE me, O God: 

For in thee do I put my trust. 
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou 



My goodness extendeth not to thee ; 

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, 

And to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten 

after another god : 
Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, 
Nor take up their names into my lips. 

5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and 

of my cup: 
Thou maintainest my lot. 




not. 



Psalm XVI. 



art my Lord : 



16 



PSALMS. 



6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; 

Yea, I have a goodly heritage. 

7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me 

counsel : 

My reins also instruct me in the night seasons. 

8 I have set the LORD always before me: 

Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be 
moved. 

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory 

rejoiceth ; 
My flesh also shall rest in hope. 

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; 

Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see 
corruption. 

11 Thou wilt show me the path of life : 
In thy presence is fulness of joy ; 

At thy right hand there are pleasures for 
evermore. 

Psalm XVII. 

IT EAR the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry; 

Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of 
feigned lips. 

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence ; 

Let thine eyes behold the things that are equal 

3 Thou hast proved mine heart ; thou hast visited 

me in the night ; 
Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing : 
/ am purposed that my mouth shall not trans- 
gress. 

4 Concerning the works of men, 

By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the 
paths of the destroyer. 



PSALMS. 



■7 



5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, 

That my footsteps slip not, 

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, 

0 God: 

Incline thine car unto me, and hear my speech, 

7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindness, O thou 

that savest by thy right hand them which 
put their trust in thee, 
From those that rise up against them, 

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye ; 

Hide me under the shadozv of thy wings , 

9 From the wicked that oppress me, 

From my deadly enemies, who compass me about, 

10 They are enclosed in their own fat ; 

With their mouth they speak proudly, 

11 They have now compassed us in our steps: 

They have set their eyes bowing down to the earth ; 

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, 

And as it were a yowig lion lurking in secret 
places, 

13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down; 

Deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy 
sword: 

14 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from 

men of the world, 
Which have their portion in this life, and whose 
belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure : 

They are fill of children, and leave the rest of 
their substa)icc to their babes. 

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: 

/ shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy like- 
ness. 



i8 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XVIII. 

T WILL love thee, O Lord, my strength. 

2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and 
my deliverer ; 
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust ; 
My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and 
my high tower. 

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be 

praised : 

So shall I be saved from mine enemies. 

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, 

And the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about : 

The snares of death prevented me. 

6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, 

And cried unto my God : 
He heard my voice out of his temple, 

And my cry came before him, even into his ears. 

7 Then the earth shook and trembled ; 

The foundations also of the hills moved and were 
shaken, because he was wroth. 
' 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils 
And fire out of his mouth devoured • 
Coals were ki?zdled by it. 
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down : 
And darkness was under his feet. 

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly : 

Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 

1 1 He made darkness his secret place ; 

His pavilion round about him were dark waters, 
and thick clouds of the skies. 



PSALM. 



19 



12 At the brightness that was before him his thick 

clouds passed, 
Hail stones and coals of fire. 

13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, 
And the Highest gave his voice ; 

Hail stones and eoals of fire, 

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows and scattered them ; 

And lie shot out lightnings, and discomfited 
them, 

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, 

And the foundations of the world were discovered, 
At thy rebuke, O Lord, 

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils, 

16 He sent from above, he took me, 

He drew me out of many waters, 

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, 

And from them which hated me; for they were 
too strong for me, 

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: 

But the Lord was my stay, 

19 He brought me forth also into a large place ; 

He delivered vie, because lie delighted in me. 

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my right- 

eousness ; 

According to the cleanness of my hands hath he 
recompensed vie, 

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, 

And have not wickedly departed from my God, 

22 For all his judgments were before me, 

A?id I did not put away I lis statutes from me, 

23 I was also upright before him, 

And I kept myself from mine iniquity. 



20 



PSALMS. 



24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me 
according to my righteousness, 

According to the cleanness of my hands in his 
eyesight, 

2$ With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself 
merciful ; 

With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself 
upright ; 

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure. 

And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself 
froward. 

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people ; 

But wilt bring down high looks. 

28 For thou wilt light my candle ; 

The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 

29 For by thee I have run through a troop ; 

A nd by my God have I leaped over a wall. 

30 As for God, his way is perfect : 
The word of the LORD is tried : 

He is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 

31 For who is God save the Lord ? 

Or who is a rock save our God ? 

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, 

And maketh my way perfect. 

33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, 

And setteth me upon my high places. 

34 He teacheth my hands to war, 

So that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salva- 

tion : 

And thy right hand hath holden me up, 
And thy gentleness hath made me great. 



PSALMS. 



2 I 



36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, 

That my feet did not slip. 

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken 

them : 

Neither did I turn again till they were 
consumed, 

38 I have wounded them that they were not able to 

rise : 

They are fallen under my feet. 

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the 

battle : 

Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up 
against me. 

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine 

enemies ; 

That I might destroy them that hate me. 

41 They cried, but there was none to save them : 

Even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. 

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before 

the wind : 

/ did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. 

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the 

people ; and thou hast made me the head 
of the heathen : 
A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me : 

The strangers shall submit themselves unto me. 

45 The strangers shall fade away, 

And be afraid out of their close places. 

46 The Lord liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ; 

Arid let the God of my salvation be exalted* 

47 It is God that avengeth me, 

And subduct h the people under nu\ 



2 2 



PSALMS. 



48 He delivereth me from mine enemies : yea, thou 

liftest me up above those that rise up 
against me : 

Thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, 0 LORD, 

among the heathen, 
A nd sing praises unto thy name. 

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king ; and 

sheweth mercy to his anointed, 
To David, and to his seed for evermore. 



pHE heavens declare the glory of God ; 

A nd the firmament sheweth his handywork. 

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, 

And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 

3 There is no speech nor language, 

Where their voice is not heard. 

4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, 

And their words to the end of the world. 

5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his 

chamber, 

And rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 

6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, 
And his circuit unto the ends of it : 

And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the 

soul : 

The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise 



Psalm XIX. 




the simple. 



PSALMS. 



2 3 



8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the 

heart : 

The commandment of the Lord is pure, cnliglit- 
ening the eyes. 

9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever : 

The judgments of the LORD are trite and 
righteous altogether. 

10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than 

much fine gold : 
Sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb. 

11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned : and in 

keeping of them there is great reward. 

12 Who can understand his errors ? cleanse thou me 

from secret faults. 

13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous 

sins ; let them not have dominion over 
me : 

Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent 
from the great transgression. 

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation 

of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, 
O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. 

Psalm XX. 

HP HE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble ; 

The name of the God of Jacob defend thee ; 

2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, 

And strengthen thee out of Zio?i ; 

3 Remember all thy offerings, 

And accept thy burnt sacrifice ; 

4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, 

A nd fulfil all thy counsel. 



2 4 



PSALMS. 



5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, 

And in the name of our God we will set up our 
banners : 

The LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 

6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed ; 

He will hear him from his holy heaven with the 
saving strength of his right hand. 

7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : 

But we will remember the name of the LORD our 
God. 

8 They are brought down and fallen : 

But we are risen, and stand upright. 

9 Save, Lord : 

Let the king hear us when we call. 



Psalm XXI. 

THE king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD ; 

And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice ! 

2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, 

A nd hast not withholden the request of his lips. 

3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of 

goodness : 

Thou sett est a crown of pure gold on his head. 

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, 

Even length of days for ever and ever. 

5 His glory is great in thy salvation : 

Honor and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 

6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: 

Thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy 
countenance. 



PSALMS. 



25 



7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, 

And through the mercy of the Most High he shall 
not be moved. 

8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies : 

Thy right hand shall find out those that hate 
thee. 

9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the 

time of thine anger : 
The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, 
and the fire shall devour them. 

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, 

And their seed from among the children of men, 

1 1 For they intended evil against thee : 

They imagined a mischievous device, which they 
are not able to perform. 

12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, 

When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon 
thy strings against the face of them. 

13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: 

So will we sing and praise thy power. 

Psalm XXII. 

jy/J Y God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? 

Why art thou so far from helping me, and from 
the words of my roaring? 

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou 

hearest not ; 
And in the night season, and am not silent. 

3 But thou art holy, 

O thou that inhabit est the praises of Israel. 

4 Our fathers trusted in thee : 

They trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 



26 



PSALMS. 



5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered : 

They trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 

6 But I am a worm, and no man ; 

A reproach of men, and despised of the people, 

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn : 

They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, 
saying, 

8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver 

him : 

Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb : 

Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my 
mother's breasts. 

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb : 

Thou art my God from my mother s belly. 

1 1 Be not far from me ; for trouble is near ; 

For there is none to help. 

12 Many bulls have compassed me : 

Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, 

As a ravening and a roaring lion. 

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are 

out of joint : 
My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst 
of my bowels. 

1 5 My strength is dried up like a potsherd ; and my 

tongue cleaveth to my jaws ; 

And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 

16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of 

the wicked have enclosed me : 
They pierced my hands and my feet. 

17 I may tell all my bones : 

They look and stare upon me. 



PSALMS. 



27 



18 They part my garments among them, 

And cast lots upon my vesture. 

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord : 

O my strength, haste thee to help me. 

20 Deliver my soul from the sword ; 

My darling from the power of the dog. 

21 Save me from the lion's mouth : 

• For thou hast heard me from the horns of the 
unicorns. 

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren : 

In the midst of the congregation will I praise 
thee. 

23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him ; all ye the 

seed of Jacob, glorify him ; 
And fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the afflic- 

tion of the afflicted ; neither hath he hid 
his face from him ; 
But when he cried unto him, he heard. 

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congrega- 

tion : 

/ will pay my vows before them that fear him. 

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied : they shall 

praise the Lord that seek him : 
Your heart shall live for ever. 

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and 

turn unto the Lord : 
And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship 
before thee. 

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's : 

A nd he is the governor among the nations. 



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PSALMS. 



29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and 

worship: all they that go down to the 
dust shall bow before him : 

A nd none can keep alive his own soul. 

30 A seed shall serve him ; 

shall be accounted to the LORD for a genera- 
tion. 

31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteous- 

ness unto a people that shall be born, 
That he hath done this. 



. Psalm XXIIL 

r THE Lord is my shepherd ; 

/ shall not want. 

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 

He leadeth me beside the still waters. 

3 He restoreth my soul : 

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for 
his name's sake. 

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the 

shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for 
thou art with me ; 
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence 

of mine enemies : 
Thou anointest my headzvith oil ; my cup runneth 
over. 

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all 

the days of my life : 
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD 
for ever. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XXIV. 

'THE earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; 
The world, and they that dwell t lie re in, 

2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, 

And established it upon the floods. 

3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? 

And who shall stand in Jus holy place ? 

4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart ; 

Who hath not lifted up his soul unto * vanity \ nor 
sworn deceitfully. 

5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, 

And righteousness from the God of his salvation. 

6 This is the generation of them that seek him, 

That seek thy face, O Jacob. 

7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye 

lifted up, ye everlasting doors ; 
And the king of glory shall come in. 

8 Who is this King of glory ? 

The Lord strong and mighty, the LORD mighty 
in battle. 

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them 

up, ye everlasting doors ; 
And the King of glory shall come in. 
io Who is this King of glory? 

The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. 

Psalm XXV. 

T INTO thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 
2 O my God, I trust in thee : 
Let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies 
triumph over me. 



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PSALMS. 



3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed : 

Let them be ashamed which transgress without 
cause. 

4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD ; 

Teach me thy paths. 

5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me ; for thou 

art the God of my salvation ; 

On thee do I wait all the day. 

6 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy 

loving kindnesses ; 
For they have been ever of old. 

7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my 

transgressions : 
According to thy mercy remember thou me \ for 
thy goodness' sake, O Lord. 

8 Good and upright is the LORD : 

Therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 

9 The meek will he guide in judgment ; 

And the meek will he teach his way. 

10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth 

Unto such as keep his covenant and his testi- 
monies. 

11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine 

iniquity ; 

For it is great. 

12 What man is he that feareth the LORD ? 

Him shall he teach in the zvay that he shall 
choose. 

13 His soul shall dwell at ease: 

And his seed shall inherit the earth. 

14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear 

him ; 

And he will shoiv them his covenant. 



PSALMS. 



3 1 



15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord ; 

For he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 

16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; 

For I am desolate and afflicted. 

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged : 

0 bring thou me out of my distresses. 

18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain ; 

And forgive all my sins. 

19 Consider mine enemies ; for they are many ; 

And they hate me with cruel hatred. 

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me : let me not be 

ashamed ; 
For I put my trust in thee. 

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me ; for 

I wait on thee. 
22 Redeem Israel, 0 God, out of all his troubles. 

Psalm XXVI. 

JUDGE me, O LORD ; for I have walked in mine 
integrity ; 

/ have trusted also in the Lord ; therefore I 
shall not slide. 

2 Examine me, 0 Lord, and prove me ; 

Try my reins and my heart. 

3 For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes ; 

A nd I have walked in thy truth. 

4 I have not sat with vain persons, 

Neither will I go in with dissemblers. 

5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers ; 

And will not sit with the wicked. 

6 I will wash mine hands in innocency : 

So will I compass thine altar, 0 Lord : 



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PSALMS. 



7 That I may publish with the voice of thanks- 

giving, 

And tell of all thy wondrous works. 

8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, 

And the place where thine honor dwelleth. 

9 Gather not my soul with sinners, 

Nor my life with bloody men : 

10 In whose hands is mischief, 

And their right hand is full of bribes. 

11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: 

Redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 

12 My foot standeth in an even place : 

In the congregations will I bless the LORD. 



HE Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom 



shall I fear ? 
The Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom 
shall I be afraid? 

2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my 

foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, 
They stumbled and fell. 

3 Though a host should encamp against me, my 

heart shall not fear: 
Though war should rise against me, in this will 



4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will 
I seek after; that I may dwell in the 
house of the Lord all the days of my life, 
To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire 
in his temple. 



Psalm XXVII. 




I be confident. 



PSALMS. 



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5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me irf his 

pavilion : in the secret of his tabernacle 
shall he hide me ; 
He shall set me up upon a rock. 

6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above 

mine enemies round about me : therefore 
will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of 

joy; 

/ will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 

7 Hear, 0 Lord, when I cry with my voice : 

Have mercy also upon me, and answer me, 

8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face ; 

My heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I 
seek, 

9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy 

servant away in anger : 
Thou hast been my help ; leave me not, neither 
forsake me, 0 God of my salvation, 

10 When my father and my mother forsake me, 

Then the LORD will take me up, 

11 Teach me thy way, 0 LORD, 

And lead me in a plain path, because of mine 
enemies, 

12 Deliver me not over unto thewill of mineenemies: 

For false witnesses are risen up against me, and 
such as breathe out cruelty, 

13 I had fainted unless I had believed to see the 

goodness of the Lord in the land of the 

living. 
14 Wait on the Lord : 
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen 

thine heart : 
Wait, I say, on t}te Lord. 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm XXVIII. 

T T NTO thee will I cry, O Lord my rock ; be not 
silent to me : 
Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them 
that go down into the pit. 

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry 

tmto thee, 

When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with 

the workers of iniquity, 
Which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief 
is in their hearts. 

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according 

to the wickedness of their endeavors : 
Give them after the work of their hands ; render 
to them their desert. 

5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord, 

nor the operation of his hands, 
He shall destroy them, and not build them up. 

6 Blessed be the LORD, 

Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 
/ The Lord is my strength and my shield ; my 
heart trusted in him, and I am helped : 
Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth ; and with 
my song will I praise him. • 

8 The LORD is their strength, 

And he is the saving strength of his anointed. 

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance : 

Feed them also, and lift them up for ever. 



PSALMS. 



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Psalm XXIX. 



IVE unto the LORD, O ye mighty, 
Give unto the LORD glory and strength. 

2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name ; 

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: 

The God of glory thunder eth : the Lord is upon 



4 The voice of the LORD is powerful ; 

The voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars : 

Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 

6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; 

Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. 

7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of 



8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; 

The LO'RD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. 

9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, 

and discovereth the forests : 
And in his temple doth every one speak of his 



10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood ; 

Yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. 

11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; 

The Lord will bless his people with peace. 

Psalm XXX. 

J WILL extol thee, O LORD ; for thou hast lifted 
me up, 

And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 




many waters. 



fire. 



glory. 



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PSALMS, 



2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, 

A nd thou hast Jiealed me. 

3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the 

grave : 

Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go 
down to the pit. 

4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, 

A ndgive tha?tks at the remembrance of his holiness. 

5 For his anger endureth but a moment, in his 

favor is life : 
Weeping may endure for a ?iight, but joy comet h 
in the morning. 

6 And in my prosperity I said, 

/ shall never be moved. 

7 LORD, by thy favor thou hast made my mountain 

to stand strong : 
Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 

8 I cried to thee, O LORD ; 

And unto the LORD I made supplication. 

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go 

down to the pit ? 
Shall the dust praise thee ? shall it declare thy 
truth ? 

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: 

Lord, be thou my helper? 

11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into 

dancing : 

Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me 
with gladness ; 

12 To thee that my glory may sing praise to thee, 

and not be silent. 
O Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto thel 
for ever. 



PS A I.MS. 



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Psalm XXXI. 

JN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust ; let me never 
be ashamed : 
Deliver me in thy righteousness, 

2 Bow down thine ear to me ; deliver me speedily: 

Be thou my strong rock, for a house of defence to 
save me. 

3 For thou art my rock and my fortress ; 

Therefore for thy name's sake lead vie, and guide 
me. 

4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily 

for me : 
For thou art my strength. 

5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit : 

Thou hast redeemed me, 0 LORD God of truth. 

6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities : 

But I trust in the Lord. 

7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy : for thou 

hast considered my trouble ; 
Thou hast known my soul in adversities ; 

8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the 

enemy : 

Thou hast set my feet in a large room. 

9 Have mercy upon me, 0 Lord, for I am in 

trouble : 

Mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul 
and my belly. 

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years 
with sighing : 

My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and 
my bones are consumed. 



3« 



PSALMS. 



ill was a reproach among all mine enemies, but 
especially among my neighbors, and a 
fear to mine acquaintance : 

They that did see me without fled from me. 

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind : 

/ am like a broken vessel. 

1 3 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was 

on every side : 
While they took counsel together against me, they 
devised to take away my life. 

14 But I trusted in thee, 0 Lord : 

I said, Thou art my God. 

15 My times are in thy hand : deliver me from the 

hand of mine enemies, 
And from them that persecute me. 

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant : 

Save me for thy mercies' sake. 

17 Let me not be ashamed, 0 LORD; for I have 

called upon thee : 
Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be 
silent in the grave. 

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence ; 

Which speak grievous things proudly and con- 
temptuously against the righteous. 

19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast 

laid up for them that fear thee ; 
Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in 
thee before the sons of men ! 

20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy 

presence from the pride of man : 
Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from 
the strife of tongues. 



PSALMS. 



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21 Blessed be the Lord : 

For he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness 
in a strong city. 

22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before 

thine eyes : 

Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my 
supplications when I cried unto thee. 

23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD 

preserveth the faithful, 
And plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. 

24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your 

heart, 

All ye that hope in the LORD. 



Psalm XXXII. 

J^LESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, 
Whose sin is covered. 

2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord 

imputeth not iniquity, 

And in whose spirit there is no guilt . 

3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old 

through my roaring all the day long. 

4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon 

me ': 

My moisture is turned into the drought of 
summer. 

5 / acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine 

iniquity have I not hid. 

I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the 
Lord ; 

And thou for gave st the iniquity of my sin. 



40 PSALMS, 

6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto 

thee in a time when thou mayest be 
found : 

Surely in the floods of great waters they shall 
not come nigh unto him. 

7 Thou art my hiding place ; thou shalt preserve 

me from trouble ; 
Thou shalt compass me about with songs of 
deliverance. 

8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way 

which thou shalt go : 
/ will guide thee with mine eye. 

9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which 

have no understanding : 
Whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, 
lest they come near unto thee. 

10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked : 

But he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall 
compass him about. 

1 1 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : 

And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in 
heart. 



Psalm XXXIII. 

J^EJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous : 
For praise is comely for the upright. 

2 Praise the LORD with harp : 

Sing unto him with the psaltery, and an instru- 
ment of ten strings. 

3 Sing unto him a new song : 

Play skilfully with a loud noise. 



PSALMS. 



41 



4 For the word of the LORD is right*, 

And all his works are done in truth. 

5 He loveth righteousness and judgment : 

The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. 

6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens 

made; 

And all the hosts of them by the breath of his 
month. 

7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as 

an heap : 

He layeth up the depth in storehouses. 

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord : 

Let all the i?ihabitants of the world stand in awe 
of him. 

9 For he spake and it was done ; 

He commanded, and it stood fast. 

10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen 

to nought : 

He maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 

11 The counsel of the LORD standeth forever, 

The thoughts of his heart to all generations. 

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD ; 

A nd the people whom lie hath chosen for his o wn 
inheritance. 

13 The Lord looketh from heaven; 

He beholdeth all the sons of men. 

14 From the place of his habitation he looketh 

Upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 

15 He fashioneth their hearts alike ; 

He considereth all their works. 

16 There is no king saved by the multitude of 

an host : 

A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 



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PSALMS. 



17 An horse is a vain thing for safety : 

Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 

18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that 

fear him, 
Upon them that hope in his mercy ; 

19 To deliver their soul from death, 

And to keep them alive in famine. 

20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD : 

He is our help and our shield. 

21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, 

Because we have trusted in his holy name. 

22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, 

According as we hope in thee. 



Psalm XXXIV. 

J WILL bless the Lord at all times: 

His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 

2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD : 

The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 

3 Oh magnify the LORD with me, 

And let us exalt his name together. 

4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, 

A ?td delivered me from all my fears. 

5 They looked unto him and were lightened : 

A nd their faces were not ashamed. 

6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, 

And saved him out of all his troubles. 

7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about 

them that fear him, 
And delivereth them. 



PSALMS. 



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8 Oh taste and sec that the Lord is good : 

Blessed is the man that trust eth i?i him, 

9 Oh fear the LORD, ye his saints : 

For there is no want to them that fear him. 

10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : 

But they that seek the LORD shall not want any 
good tiling. 

11 Come, ye children, hearken. unto me : 

I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 

12 What man is he that desireth life, 

And loveth many days, that he may see good? 

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, 

And thy lips from speaking guile. 

14 Depart from evil, and do good ; 

Seek peace, and pursue it. 

15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, 

And 1 lis ears are open unto their cry. 

16 The face of the LORD is against them that do 

evil, 

To cut off the remembrance of them from the 
ear tli. 

17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, 

And deliver eth them out of all their troubles. 

18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken 

heart : 

And saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous : 

But the Lord deliver eth him out of them all. 

20 He keepeth all his bones : 

Not one of them is broken. 

21 Evil shall slay the wicked : 

And they that hate the righteous shall be deso- 
late. 



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PSALMS. 



22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants : 

And none of them that trust in him shall be 
desolate. 



Psalm XXXV. 

ID LEAD my cause, O LORD, with them that strive 

with me : 

Fight against them that fight against me. 

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, 

And stand up for mine help. 

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way 

against them that persecute me : 
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 

4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that 

seek after my soul : 
Let them be turned back and brought to confusion 
that devise my hurt. 

5 Let them be as chaff before the wind : 

And let the angel of the LORD chase them. 

6 Let their way be dark and slippery : 

And let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 

7 For without cause have they hid for me their 

net in a pit, 
Which without cause they have digged for my 
soul. 

8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares ; 

and let his net that he hath hid catch 
himself : 

Into that very destruction let him fall. 

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD : 

shall rejoice in his salvation. 



PSALMS. 



45 



10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto 

thee, which deliverest the poor from him 
that is too strong for him, 
Yea, the 'poor arid the needy from him that 
spoileth him ? 

11 False witnesses did rise up; 

They laid to my charge things that I knezv not, 

12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling 

of my soul. 

13 But as for me, when they were sick, my 
clothing was sackcloth : 
I humbled my soul with fasting ; 

And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 

14 I behaved myself as though he had been my 

friend or brother : 
/ bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for 
his mother. 

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, 

And gathered themselves together : 
Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together 
against me, and I knew it not ; 
They did tear me, and ceased not : 

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, 

They gnashed upon me with their teeth. 

17 LORD, how long wilt thou look on ? 

Rescue my soul from their destructions, my 
darling from the lions. 

18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation : 

/ will praise thee among much people. 

19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully 

rejoice over me : 
Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me 
without a Kause. 



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PSALMS. 



20 For they speak not peace : 

But they devise deceitful matters against them 
that are quiet in the land. 

21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, 

And said, Aha, aha ! our eye hath seen it. 

22 This thou hast seen, O Lord : keep not silence : 

O LORD, be ?iot far from me. 

23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, 

Even unto my cause, my God and my LORD. 

24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy 

righteousness ; 
And let them not rejoice over me. 

25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would 

we have it : 
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion 

together that rejoice at mine hurt : 
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that 
magnify themselves against me. 

27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor 

my righteous cause : yea, let them say 
continually, 

Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure 
in the prosperity of his servant. 

28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness 

And of thy praise all the day long. 



Psalm XXXVI. 

HP HE transgression of the wicked saith within my 
A heart, 

That there is no fear of Gbd before his eyes. 



PSALMS. 



47 



2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, 

Until lus iniquity be found to be hateful. 

3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit : 

He hath left off to be wise, and to do good. 

4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed ; 

He setteth himself in a way that is not good ; he 
abhor reth not evil. 

5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens : 

And thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 

6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains : 

Thy judgments are a great deep : 
O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. 

7 How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God ! 

Therefore the children of men put their trust 
under the shadow of thy wings. 

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the 

fatness of thy house ; 
And thou shall make them drink of the river of 
thy pleasures. 

9 For with thee is the fountain of life : 

In thy light shall we see light. 

10 Oh continue thy loving kindness unto them that 

know thee : 
And thy righteousness to the upright in heart. 

11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, 

And let not the hand of the wicked remove me. 

12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen : 

They are cast down, and shall not be able to rise. 

Psalm XXXVII. 



RET not thyself because of evil doers, 

Neither be thou envious against the workers of 
iniquity. 



ft PSALMS. 

2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, 

And wither as the green herb, 

3 Trust in the Lord and do good ; 

So shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou 
shalt be fed. 

4 Delight thyself also in the Lord ; 

And he shall give thee the desires of thine 
heart. 

5 Commit thy way unto the Lord ; 

Trust also in him ; and he shall bring it to pass. 

6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the 

light, 

And thy judgment as the noonday. 

7 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him : 

Fret not thyself because of him who prosper eth in 
his way, because of the man who bringeth 
wicked devices to pass. 

8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath : 

Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 

9 For evil doers shall be cut off : 

But t/wse that wait upon the LORD, they shall 
inherit the earth. 

0 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not 

be: 

Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and 
it shall not be. 

1 But the meek shall inherit the earth ; 

And shall delight themselves in the abundance of 
peace. 

2 The wicked plotteth against the just, 

And gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 

3 The Lord shall laugh at him : 

For he seeth that Ids day is coming. 



PSALMS. 



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14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have 

bent their bow, 
To cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such t 
as be of upright conversation. 

15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, 

And their bows shall be broken. 

16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than 

the riches of many wicked. 

17 For the arm of the wicked shall be broken: 

but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 

18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright : 

And their inheritance shall be for ever. 

19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time : 

And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 

20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of 

the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs : 
They shall consume ; into smoke shall they 
consume away. 

21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: 

But the righteous sheweth mercy, a?td giveth. 

22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the 

earth ; 

And they that be cursed of him shall be cut off. 

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the 

Lord : 

And he delight eth in his way. 

24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : 

For the LORD uplwldeth him with his hand. 

25 I have been young, and now am old ; 

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, 
nor his seed begging bread. 

26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth ; 

And his seed is blessed. 



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PSALMS. 



27 Depart from evil, and do good; 

A nd dwell for evermore. 

28 For the Lord loveth judgment, 

And forsaketh not his saints ; 
They are preserved for ever : 

But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 

29 The righteous shall inherit the land, 

And dwell therein for ever. 

30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, 

And his tongue talketh of judgment. 

31 The law of his God is in his heart ; 

None of his steps shall slide. 

32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, 

And seeketh to slay him. 
3»3 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, 
' Nor condemn him when he is judged. 

34 Wait on the LORD and keep his way, and he 

shall exalt thee to inherit the land ; 
When the wicked are cut off thou shall see it. 

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, 

And spreading himself like a green bay tree. 

36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not : 

Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 

37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : 

For the end of that man is peace, 

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together : 

The end of the wicked shall be cut off. 

39 But £he salvation of the righteous is of the LORD : 

He is their strength in the time of trouble. 

40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them : 

He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save 
them, because they trust in him. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XXXVIII. 

f~\ LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath : 

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, 

A nd thy hand presseth me sore. 

3 There is no soundness in my flesh, because of 

thine anger ; 
Neither is there any rest in my bones, because of 
my sin. 

4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head : 

As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 

5 My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my 

foolishness. 

6 I am troubled ; I am bowed down greatly ; 

I go mourning all the day long. 

7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease : 

A nd there is no soundness in my flesh. 

8 I am feeble and sore broken : 

I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my 
heart. 

9 LORD, all my desire is before thee ; 

A nd my groaning is not hid from thee. 

10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me : 

As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from 
me. 

1 1 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my 

sore ; 

And my kinsmen stand afar off. 

12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for 

me ; and they that seek my hurt speak 
mischievous things, 
And imagine deceits all the day long. * 



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PSALMS. 



13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not ; 

And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his 
mouth. 

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, 

And in whose mouth are no reproofs. 

15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope : 

Thou wilt hear, 0 LORD my God. 

16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should 

rejoice over me : 
When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves 
against me. 

17 For I am ready to halt, 

And my sorrow is continually before me. 

18 For I will declare mine iniquity; 

/ will be sorry for my sin. 

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: 

And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 

20 They also that render evil for good are mine 

adversaries ; 
Because I follow the thing that good is. 

21 Forsake me not, O Lord ; O my God, be not far 

from me. 

22 Make haste to help me, 0 Lord my salvation. 



Psalm XXXIX. 

T SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not 

with my tongue : 
/ will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the 
wicked is before me. 
2 I was dumb with silence : I held my peace, even 
from good ; 
And my sorrow was stirred. 



PSALMS 



5 3 



3 My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing 

the fire burned : 
The?i spake I with my tongue, 

4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the 

measure of my days, what it is ; 
That I may know how frail I am. 

5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand- 

breadth ; and mine age is as nothing 
before thee : 
Verily every man at his best state is altogether 
vanity. 

6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely 

they are disquieted in vain : 
He heapcth up riches, and knoweth not who shall 
gather them. 

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? 

My hope is in thee. 

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions : 

Make me not the reproach of the foolish. 

9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; 

Becaicse thou didst it. 

10 Remove thy stroke away from me : 

I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 

1 1 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for 

iniquity, thou makest his beauty to 
consume away like a moth : 
Surely every man is vanity. 

1 2 Hear my prayer, 0 Lord, and give ear unto my cry; 

Hold not thy peace at my tears : 
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, 
As all my fat Iters were. 

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, 

Before I go hence, and be no more. 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm XL. 
J WAITED patiently for the Lord ; 

And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out 

of the miry clay, 
And set my feet upon a rock, and established my 
goings, 

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even 

praise unto our God : 

Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in 
the Lord. 

4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his 

trust, 

And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn 
aside to lies. 

5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works 

which thou hast done, 
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward : 
They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee : 
If I would declare and speak of them, they are 
more than can be numbered. 

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire ; mine 

ears hast thou opened : 
Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not 
required. 

7 Then said I, Lo, I come : 

In the volume of the book it is written of me> 

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God : 

. Yea, thy law is within my heart. 

9 I have preached righteousness in the great 

congregation : 
Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou 
knowest. 



PSALMS. 



io I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart ; 

I have declared thy faithfulness and thy 
salvation : 

/ have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy 
truth from the great congregation. 
ir Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, 

0 Lord : 

Let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually 
preserve me. 

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about : 

Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that 

1 am not able to look up ; 

They are more than the hairs of mine head : 
Therefore my heart faileth me. 

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: 

O Lord, make haste to help me. 

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together 

that seek after my soul, to destroy it ; 
Let them be driven backward and put to shame, 

that wish me evil. 
1$ Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, 

that say unto me, Aha, aha, 
16 Let all those that seek thee, rejoice and be glad 

in thee : 

Let such as love thy salvation, say continually, 

The Lord be magnified. 
17 But I am poor and needy; 

Yet the Lord thinketh upon me : 
Thou art my helper and my deliverer ; 

Make no tarrying, O my God. 



4 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XLI. 

T3LESSED is he that considereth the poor: 

The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 

2 The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, 

and he shall be blessed upon the earth : 

And thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of 
his enemies. 

3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of 

languishing : 
Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. ' 

4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me : 

Heal my soul ; for I have sinned against thee. 

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me ; 

When shall he die, and his name perish ? 

6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity : 

His heart gather eth iniquity to itself ; when he 
goeth abroad, he telleth it. 

7 All that hate me, whisper together against me : 

Against me do they devise my hurt. 

8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him : 

And now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more. 

9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, 

which did eat of my bread, 
Hath lifted up his heel against me. 

10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and 

raise me up, 
That I may requite them. 

1 1 By this I know that thou favorest me, 

Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 

12 And as for me, thou Upholdest me in mine 

integrity, 

And set test me before thy face for ever. 



PSALMS. 



SI 



13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from 

EVERLASTING, AND TO EVERLASTING. 

Amen and amen. 

Psalm XLII. 

A S the hart panteth after the water brooks, 
So panic tli my soul after thee, O God. 

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : 

When shall I come and appear before God? 

3 My tears have been my meat day and night, 

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy 
God? 

4 When I remember these things I pour out my 

soul in me : for I had gone with the 
multitude, I went with them to the house 
of God, 

With the voice of joy ajid praise, with a multitude 
that kept holy day. 

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why 

art thou disquieted in me? 
Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, for 
the help of his count e?iance. 

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me : 

therefore will I remember thee, 
From the land of Jordan, and of the Hermo?iites, 
from the hill Mizar. 

7 Deep calleth unto deep, at the noise of thy 

waterspouts : 
All thy waves a?id thy bit lows are gone over me. 

8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness 

in the daytime, 
And in the night his song shall be with me, and 
my prayer unto the God of my life. 



5* 



PSALMS. 



9 I will say unto God, my Rock, Why hast thou 
forgotten me ? 

Why go I mourning, because of the oppression of 
the enemy ? 

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies 

reproach me ; 
While they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 

1 1 Why art thou cast down. 0 my soul ? and why 

art thou disquieted in me ? 
Hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him, 
Who is the health of my countenance, 

and my God. 

Psalm XLIII. 
JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against 



' an ungodly nation : 

Oh deliver me from the deceit ful and unjust man. 

2 For thou art the God of my strength : why dost 

thou cast me off? 
Why go I mourning, because of the oppression of 
the enemy ? 

3 Oh send out thy light and thy truth : let them 

lead me ; 

Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy 
tabernacles ; 

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God 

my exceeding joy : 
Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, 0 God, my 



5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why 
art thou disquieted within me ? 
Hope in God : for I shall yet praise him, 
Who is the health of my countenance, 
and my God. 



God. 



PSALMS. 



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Psalm XLIV. 



E have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers 



have told us, 
What work thou didst in their days, in the times 
of old. 

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy 
hand, and plantedst them : 
How thou didst afflict the people, and cast them 



3 For they got not the land in possession by their 

own sword, 
Neither did their own arm save them : 
But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light 

of thy countenance, 
Because thou hadst a favor unto them. 

4 Thou art my King, O God : 

Command deliverance for Jacob. 

5 Through thee will we push down our enemies : 

Through thy name will we tread them under that 



6 For I will not trust in my bow, 

Neither shall my sword save me. 

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, 

And hast put them to shame that hated us. 

8 In God we boast all the day long, 

And praise thy name for ever. 

9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame ; 

And goes t not forth with our armies. 
IO Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: 
And they which hate us spoil for themselves. 




out. 



rise up against us. 



PSALMS. 



11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for 

meat ; 

And hast scattered us among the heathen. 

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, 

And dost not increase thy wealth by their price, 

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, 

A scorn and a derision to them that are round 
about us. 

14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, 

A shaking of the head among the people. 

15 My confusion is continually before me, 

And the shame of my face hath covered me. 

16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and 

blasphemeth ; 
By reason of the enemy and avenger. 

17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not 

forgotten thee, 
Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 

18 Our heart is not turned back, 

Neither have our steps declined from thy way ; 

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of 

dragons, 

A nd covered us with the shadow of death. 

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, 

Or stretched out our hands to a strange god ; 

21 Shall not God search this out? 

For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long ; 

We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? 

Arise, cast us not off for ever. 



PSALMS. 



6l 



24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, 

And forget test our affliction and our oppression ? 

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust : 

Our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 

26 Arise for our help, 

And redeem us for thy mercies' sake* 



Psalm XLV. 

TV yTY heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of 
the things which I have made touching 
the king : 

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 

2 Thou art fairer than the children of men : grace 

is poured into thy lips : 
Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 

3 Gird thy sword upon tliy thigh, O most mighty, 

With thy glory and thy majesty. 

4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of 

truth and meekness and righteousness ; 
Arid thy right hand shall teach thee terrible 
things. 

5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's 

enemies ; 

Whereby the people fall under thee. 

6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever : 

The sceptre of th y kingdom is a right sceptre. 

7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wicked- 

ness : 

Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with 
the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 



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PSALMS. 



8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and 

cassia, 

Out of the ivory palaces , whereby they have made 
thee glad. 

9 Kings' daughters were among thy honorable 

women : 

Upon thy right hand did stand the queen, in gold 
of Ophir. 

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline 

thine ear : 

Forget also thine own people, and thy father s 
house ; 

1 1 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty . 

For he is thy LORD ; and worship thou him. 

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a 

gift; 

Even the rich among the people shall entreat thy 
favor. 

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within : 

Her clothing is of wrought gold. 

14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of 

needlework : 
The virgins her companions that follow her, shall 
be brought unto thee. 

1 5 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought; 

They shall enter into the king's palace. 

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, 

Whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. 

17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all 

generations : 
Therefore shall the people praise thee, for ever and 
ever. 



PSALMS. 



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Psalm XLVI. 

/^OD is our refuge and strength, 
A very present help in trouble. 

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be 

removed, 

And though the mountains be carried into the 
midst of the sea ; 

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, 

Though the mountains shake with the swelling 
thereof. 

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make 

glad the city of God ; 

The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most 
High. 

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be 

moved : 

God shall help her, and that right early. 

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved : 

He uttered his voice, the earth melted. 

7 The Lord of hosts is with us : 

The God of Jacob is our refuge 

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, 

What desolations he hath made in the earth. 

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the 

earth : 

He brcaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in 
sunder ; he burnetii the chariot in the fire. 

10 Be still, and know that I am God : 

I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be 
exalted in the earth. 

11 The LORD of hosts is with us ; 

The God of Jacob is our refuge. 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm XLVII. 

/^VH clap your hands, all ye people ; 

Shout unto God with the voice of triumph. 

2 For the Lord most high is terrible : 

He is a great King over all the earth. 

3 He shall subdue the people under us, 

And the nations under our feet, 

4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, 

The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. 

5 God is gone up with a shout, 

The Lord with the sound of a trumpet. 

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises : 

Sing praises unto our King, sing praises. 

7 For God is the King of all the earth : 

Sing ye praises with understanding. 

8 God reigneth over the heathen : 

God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. 

9 The princes of the people are gathered together^ 

Even the people of the God of Abraham : 
For the shields of the earth belong unto God : 
He is greatly exalted. 



Psalm XLVIII. 

REAT is the LORD, and greatly to be praised 

In the city of our God, in the mountain of his 
holiness. 

2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth 
is Mount Zion, 
On the sides of the north, the city of the great 
King. 



PSALMS. 



3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 

4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed 

by together. 

5 They saw it, and so they marvelled ; 

They were troubled, and hasted away. 

6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of 

a woman in travail. 

7 Thou breakest the ships of Tars his h with an 

east wind. 

8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of 

the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God : 
God will e stab lis It it for ever. 

9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, 

In the midst of thy temple. 

10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise, 

unto the ends of the earth : 
Thy right hand is full of righteousness. 

11 Let Mount Zion rejoice, 

Let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of 
thy judgments. 

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her : 

Tell the towers thereof. 

13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces ; 

That ye may tell it to the generation following. 

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: 

He will be our guide, even unto death. 

Psalm XLIX. 

T_T EAR this, all ye people ; 

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: 
2 Both low and high, 

Rich and poor, together. 



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PSALMS. 



3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom ; 

And the meditation of my heart shall be of 
understanding. 

4 I will incline mine ear to a parable : 

I will open my dark saying upon the harp. 

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, 

When the iniquity of my heels shall compass me 
about ? 

6 They that trust in their wealth, 

And boast themselves in the multitude of their 
riches ; 

7 None of them can by any means redeem his 

brother, 

Nor give to God a ransom for him : 

8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and 

it ceaseth for ever :) 

9 That he should still live for ever and not see 

corruption. 

IO For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool 
and the brutish person perish, 
And leave their wealth to others. 
I l Their inward thought is, that their houses shall 
continue for ever, and their dwelling- 
places to all generations : 
They call their lands after their own names. 

12 Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: 

He is like the beasts that perish. 

13 This their way is their folly: 

Yet their posterity approve their sayings. 

14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; 

Death shall feed on them ; 



PSALMS. 



And the upright shall have dominion over them 
in the morning ; 
And their beauty shall consume in the grave from 



15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of 

the grave : 
For he shall receive me. 

16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, 

When the glory of his house is increased. 

17 For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away: 

His glory shall not descend after him. 

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul : 

And men will praise thee, when thou doest well 



19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; 

They shall never see light. 

20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, 

Is like the beasts that perish. 



THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, 
And called the earth from the rising of the sun, 
unto the going down thereof. 

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, 

God hath si lined. 

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : 

A fire shall devour before him, 
And it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, 

And to the earth, that he may judge I lis people. 



their dwelling. 



to thyself, 



Psalm L. 




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PSALMS 



5 Gather my saints together unto me ; 

Those that have made a covenant with me, by 
sacrifice. 

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness : 

For God is judge himself. 

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak ; 0 Israel, 

and I will testify against thee : 
/ am God, even thy God. 

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy 

burnt offerings, 

To have been continually before me. 

9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, 

Nor he goats out of thy folds : 
io For every beast of the forest is mine, 

And the cattle upon a thousand hills. 
Ill know all the fowls of the mountains : 

And the wild beasts of the field are mine. 

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: 

For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, 

Or drink the blood of goats ? 

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving ; 

And pay thy vows unto the Most High : 

15 And call upon me in the day of trouble : 

/ will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 

16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou 

to do to declare my statutes, 
Or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy 
mouth ? 

17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, 

And easiest my words behind thee. 



PSALMS. 



18 \\£hen thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst 

with him, 
And hast been partaker with adulterers. 

19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, 

And thy tongue fravietli deceit. 

20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother ; 

Thou slander est thine own mot Iter s son. 

21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; 

Thou thought est that I was altogether such a one 
as thyself : 
But I will reprove thee, 

And set them in order before thine eyes. 

22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, 

Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to 
deliver. 

23 Whoso offereth praise, glorifleth me : 

And to him that order eth his conversation aright, 
will I shew the salvation of God. 

Psalm LI. 

TTAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy 
loving kindness : 

According unto the multitude of thy tender 
mercies, blot out my transgressions. 

2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 

And cleanse me from my sin. 

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions : 

And my sin is ever before me. 

4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, 

And done this evil in thy sight : 
That thou mightest be justified when thou 
speakest, 
And be clear wlicn thou judgest. 



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PSALMS. 



5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity ; 

A nd in sin did my mother conceive me, 

6 Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts : 

And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to 
know wisdom. 

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : 

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness ; 

That the bones which thou hast broken may 
rejoice. 

9 Hide thy face from my sins, 

And blot out all mine iniquities. 

10 Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; 

And renew a right spirit within me. 

1 1 Cast me not away from thy presence ; 

And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; 

And uphold me with thy free Spirit. 

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; 

A nd sinners shall be converted unto thee. 

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, 0 God, thou 

God of my salvation ; 
And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteous- 
ness. 

1 5 O Lord, open thou my lips ; 

And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 

16 For thou desirest not sacrifice ; else would I give it : 

Thou delight est not in burnt offering. 

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : 

A broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt 
not despise. 

18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion : 

Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 



PSALMS. 



19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of 
righteousness, with burnt offering and 
whole burnt offering. 
Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. 



HY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty 



man ? 

The goodness of God endureth continually. 

2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs ; 

Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 

3 Thoji lovest evil more than good ; 

And lying rather tJian to speak righteous ?iess. 

4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceit- 

ful tongue. 
5 God shall likewise destroy thee forever : 
He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of 
thy dwelling-place, 
And root thee out of the land of the living. 
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall 
laugh at him : 
7 Lo y this is the man that made not God his 
strength ; 

But trusted in the abundance of his riches, 

And strcyigthcncd himself in his wickedness. 
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of 



I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. 
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast 
done it : 

Ami I will wait on thy name; for it is good 
before thy saints. 



Psalm LII. 




God: 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm LIII. 

T'HE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. 

Corrupt are they, and have done abominable 
iniquity : 
There is none that doeth good. 

2 God looked down from heaven upon the chil- 

dren of men, 

To see if there were any that did understand, 
that did seek God. 

3 Every one of them is gone back ; 
They are altogether become filthy; 

There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge ? who 

eat up my people as they eat bread : 
They have not called upon God. 

5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was : 

for God hath scattered the bones of him 
that encampeth against thee : 
Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath 
despised them. 

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of 

Zion ! 

When God bringeth back the captivity of his 
people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall 
be glad. 

Psalm LIV. 

CAVE me, O God, by thy name, 

And judge me by thy strength. 
2 Hear my prayer, O God; 

Give ear to the words of my mouth. 



PSAi.MS. 



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3 For strangers arc risen up against me, and 

oppressors seek after my soul : 
They have not set God before them. 

4 Behold, God is mine helper : 

The Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 

5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies : 

Cut them off in thy truth. 

6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee : 

/ will praise thy name, 0 LORD ; for it is good. 

7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble : 

And mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine 



^ IVE ear to my prayer, 0 God ; 

And hide not thyself from my supplication. 

2 Attend unto me and hear me : 

/ mourn in my complaint, and make a noise ; 

3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of 

the oppression of the wicked : 
For they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath 



4 My heart is sore pained within me : 

And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 

5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, 

A nd horror hath overwhelmed me. 

6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! 

For then would I fly away, and be at rest 

7 Lo, then would I wander far off, 

And remain in the wilderness. 

8 I would hasten my escape, 

From the windy storm and tempest. 



enemies. 



Psalm LV. 




they hate me. 



74 



PSALMS. 



9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues : 
For I have seen violence and strife in the city. 

10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls 

thereof : 

Mischief, also, and sorrow are in the midst of it^ 

1 1 Wickedness is in the midst thereof : 

Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; 

then I could have borne it : 

Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify 
himself against me ; then I would have 
hid myself from him : 

13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and 

mine acquaintance. 
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walkea 
unto the house of God in company. 

1 5 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down 

quick into hell : 
For wickedness is in their dwellings^ and among 
them. 

16 As for me, I will call upon God ; 

And the LORD shall save me. 

17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, 

and cry aloud : 
And he shall hear my voice. 

18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the 

battle that was against me : 
For there were many with me. 

19 God shall hear, and afflict them, 

Even he that abide th of old. 
Because they have no changes, 
Therefore they fear not God. 



PSALMS. 



75 



20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be 

at peace with him : 

He hath broken his covenant. 

21 The wordjs of his mouth were smoother than 

butter, but war was in his heart. 
His words were softer than oil, yet were they 
drawn swords. 

22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall 

sustain thee : 
He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 

23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the 

pit of destruction : 
Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half 

their days ; 
But I will trust in Thee. 



Psalm LVI. 

merciful unto me, O God: for man would 
swallow me up ; 

He fighting daily oppresseth me. 

2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up : 

For they be many that fight against me, O thou 
Most High. 

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 

4 In God I iv ill praise his word; 
In God I have put my trust ; 

/ will not fear what flesh can do unto »n\ 

5 Every day they wrest my words : 

All their thoughts arc against me for evil. 

6 They gather themselves together, they hide 

themselves, 

They mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. 



7 6 



PSALMS. 



7 Shall they escape by iniquity ? 

In thine anger cast dozvn the people ', O God. 

8 Thou tellest my wanderings : put thou my tears 

into thy bottle : 
Are they not in thy book? 

9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies 

turn back : 
This I know ; for God is for me. 

10 In God will I praise his word : 

In the LORD will I praise his zvord. 

1 1 In God have I put my trust : 

/ will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God : 

I will render praises unto thee. 

13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: will 

not thou deliver my feet from falling, 
Tliat I may walk before God in the light of the 
living? 

Psalm LVIL 

T) E merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me : 

For my soul trust eth in thee : 
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make 
my refuge, 
Until these calamities be overpast. 

2 I will cry unto God most high ; 

Unto God that performeth all things for me. 

3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the 

reproach of him that would swallow 
me up. 

God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 

4 My soul is among lions : 

A nd I lie even among tliem tliat are set on fire^ 



PSALMS. 



7 7 



Even the sons of men, whose teeth arc spears 
and arrows, 
And their tongue a sliarp sword. 

5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens ; 

Let thy glory be above all the earth. 

6 They have prepared a net for my steps ; 

My soul is bozved down : 
They have digged a pit before me, 

Into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. 

7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed : 

/ will sing and give praise. 

8 Awake up, my glory ; awake, psaltery and harp : 

/ myself will azvake early. 

9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people : 

/ will sing unto thee among the nations. 

10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, 

And thy truth unto the clouds. 

1 1 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens : 

Let thy glory be above all the earth. 



Psalm LVIII. 

T^)0 ye indeed speak righteousness, O congre- 
gation ? 

Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sous of men f 

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness ; 

Ye zueigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb : 

They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies 

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they 

are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her 
ear : 

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, 

charming never so wisely* 



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PSALMS. 



6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth : 

Break out the great teeth of the young lions, 
O Lord. 

7 Let them melt away as waters which run 

continually : 
When he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let 
them be as cut in pieces. 

8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them 

pass away : 

Like the untimely birth of a woman, that they 
may not see the sun. 

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall 

take them away as with a whirlwind, 
Both living, and in his wrath. 

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the 

vengeance : 

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 

1 1 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward 

for the righteous : 
Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. 



Psalm LIX. 

T^|ELIVER me from mine enemies, O my God : 

Defend me from them that rise up against me. 

2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, 

A nd save me from bloody men. 

3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul : the mighty 

are gathered against me ; 
Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, 
0 Lord. 

4 They run and prepare themselves without my 

fault : 

Awake to help me, and behold. 



PSALMS. 



79 



5 Thou, therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God 

of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen : 

Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. 

6 They return at evening: 

They make a noise like a dog, and go round about 
the city. 

7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth : swords 

are in their lips : 
For who, say they, doth /tear ? 

8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them ; 

Thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 

9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee : 

For God is my defence. 

10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me : 

God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 

11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter 

them by thy power ; 
And bring them down, O Lord our shield. 

12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their 

lips let them be even taken in their pride : 
And for cursing and lying which they speak. 

13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that the^ 

may not be : 
And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto 
the ends of the earth. 

14 And at evening let them return ; 

And let them make a ?ioise like a dog, and go 
round about the city. 

15 Let them wander up and down for meat, 

A nd grudge if they be not satisfied. 

16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing 

aloud* of thy mercy in the morning : 
For t/iou hast been my defence and refuge in the 
day of my trouble. 



8o 



PSALMS. 



17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: 

For God is my defence, and the God of my mercy. 



Psalm LX. 

^\ God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered 
us, thou hast been displeased ; 
0 turn thyself to us again. 

2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast 

broken it : 
Heal the breaches thereof ; for it shaketh. 

3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things : 

Thou hast made us drink the zvine of astonish- 
ment. 

4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. 

That it may be displayed because of the truth. 

5 That thy beloved may be delivered ; 

Save with thy right hand, and liear me. 

6 God hath spoken in his holiness ; I will rejoice, 

/ will divide SJiechem, and mete out the valley of 
Succoth. 

7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine : 

Ephraim also is the strength of mine head ; Judah 
is my lawgiver ; 

8 Moab is my washpot ; over Edom will I cast out 

my shoe : 

Philistia, triumph thou because of me. 

9 Who will bring me into the strong city? 

Who will lead me into Edom ? 
10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? 
And thou, 0 God, which didst not go out with 
our armies ? 



PSALMS. 



81 



11 Give us help from trouble: 

For vain is the help of man. 

12 Through God we shall do valiantly : 

For he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 

Psalm LXI. 

U EAR my cry, O God ; 

Attend unto my prayer. 

2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee ; 

when my heart is overwhelmed. 
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 

3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, 

And a strong tower from tlie enemy. 

4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever : 

/ will trust in the covert of thy wings. 

5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows : 

Thou hast given me the heritage of those tJiat 
fear thy name. 

6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life : 

A nd his years as many generations. 

7 He shall abide before God for ever: 

Oil prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve 
him. 

8 So will I sin^* praise unto thy name for ever, 

That I may daily perform my vows. 

Psalm LXII. 

HPRULY my soul waiteth upon God: 

From him comet h my salvation. 
2 He only is my rock and my salvation ; 

He is my defence ; I shall not be greatly move . . 



PSALMS. 



3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man ? 

Ye shall be slain all of you : 
As a bowing zvall shall ye be, and as a tottering 
fence. 

4 They only consult to cast him down from his 

excellency : they delight in lies : 
They bless with their mouth, but they curse 
inwardly. 

5 My soul, wait thou only upon God ; 

For my expectation is from him. 

6 He only is my rock and my salvation : 

He is my defence ; I shall not be moved. 

7 In God is my salvation and my glory: 

The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in 
God. 

8 Trust in him at all times ; ye people, pour out 

your heart before him : 
God is a refuge for us. 

9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of 

high degree are a lie : 
To be laid in the balance, they are altogether 
lighter than vanity. 

10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in 

robbery : 

If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 

1 1 God hath spoken once ; twice have I heard this : 

That power belongeth 7into God. 

12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: 

For thou render est to every man according to his 
work. 



I 



PSALMS. 



83 



Psalm LXIII. 



GOD, thou art rny God ; early will I seek thee, 



My soul thirsteth for thee ; 
My flesh longcth for thee in a dry and thirsty 
land, where no water is ; 

2 To see thy power and thy glory, 

So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 

3 Because thy loving kindness is better than life. 

My lips shall praise thee. 

4 Thus will I bless thee while I live : 

/ will lift tip my hands in thy name. 

5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and 

fatness ; 

And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : 

6 When I remember thee upon my bed, 

And meditate on thee in the night zcatches. 

7 Because thou hast been my help, 

Therefore in the shadozu of thy zuings will I 



8 My soul followeth hard after thee: 

Thy right hand upholdetli me. 

9 But those that seek my soul to destroy it, 

Shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 

10 They shall fall by the sword : 

They shall be a portion for foxes. 

1 1 But the king shall rejoice in God : every one that 

sweareth by him shall glory : 
But the mouth of them that speak lies sliall be 




rejoice. 



stopped. 



8 4 



PSALMS. 



Psalm LXIV. 

J1_J EAR my voice, O God, in my prayer i 
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 

2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked ; 

From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity ; 

3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, 

And bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even 
bitter words ; 

4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect : 

Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 

5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter; 

they commune of laying snares privily ; 
They say, Who shall see them ? 

6 They search out iniquities : they accomplish a 

diligent search ; 
Both the inward thought of every one of them, 
and the heart, is deep. 

7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow ; 

Suddenly shall they be zvounded. 

8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon 

themselves ; 
All that see them shall flee away. 

9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the 

work of God ; 
For they shall wisely consider of his doing. 
lO The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and 
shall trust in him ; 
And all the upright in heart shall glory, 



PSALMS 



85 



Psalm LXV. 

p RAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion : 
And unto thee shall the vow be performed, 

2 O thou that hcarest prayer, unto thee shall all 

flesh come. 

3 Iniqziities prevail against me : as for our trans- 

gressions, tlion s/ialt purge them away. 

4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and 

causest to approach unto thee, that he 
may dwell in thy courts : 
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy 
house, even of thy holy temple. 

5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou 

answer us, O God of our salvation ; 

Who art the confidence of all the ends of the 
earth, and of them that are afar off upon 
the sea. 

6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; 

being girded with power : 

7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, tJie noise of 

their waves, and the tmmdt of the people. 

8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are 

afraid at thy tokens : 
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and 
evening to rejoice. 

9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : 

Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, 
Which is full of water: 

Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so 
provided for it. 



PSALMS. 



10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly; 

thou settlest the furrows thereof : 

Thou makest it soft with showers ; thou blessest 
the springing thereof. 

1 1 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; 

A nd thy paths drop fatness. 

12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; 

And the little hills rejoice on every side. 

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks ; 

The valleys also are covered over with corn ; they 
shout for joy, they also sing. 

Psalm LXVI. 

TV /TAKE a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands. 

2 Sing forth the honor of his name; make his 
praise glorious. 

3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy 

works ! 

Through the greatness of thy power shall thine 
enemies submit themselves unto thee. 

4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing 

unto thee ; 
They shall sing to thy name. 

5 Come and see the works of God : 

He is terrible in his doing toward the children of 
men. 

6 He turned the sea into dry land : they went 

through the flood on foot : 

There did we rejoice in him. 

7 He ruleth by his power for ever ; his eyes behold 

the nations : 

Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. 



PSALMS. 



3? 



8 Oh bless our God, ye people, 

And make the voice of his praise to be heard: 

9 Which holdeth our soul in life, 

And suffer eth not our feet to be moved, 

10 For thou, O God, hast proved us : 

Thou hast tried us as silver is tried. 

1 1 Thou broughtest us into the net ; 

Thou laidst affliction on our loins. 

12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; 

we went through fire and through water : 
> But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. 

13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings : 

/ will pay thee my vows, 

14 Which my lips have uttered, 

And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 

1 5 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, 

with the incense of rams : 
I will offer bullocks with goats. 

16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, 

And I will declare what he hath done for my 
soul. 

17 I cried unto him with my mouth, 

And he was extolled with my tongue. 

18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, 

The LORD will not hear me : 

1 9 But verily God hath heard me ; 

He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. 
• 20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my 
prayer, 
Nor his mercy from me. 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm LXVII. 

OD be merciful unto us, and bless us : 
And cause his face to shine upon us. 

2 That thy way may be known upon earth, 

Thy saving health among all nations. 

3 Let the people praise thee, O God, 

Let all the people praise thee. 

4 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy : for 

thou shalt judge the people righteously, 
And govern the nations upon earth. 

5 Let the people praise thee, O God, 

Let all the people praise thee. 

6 Then shall the earth yield her increase ; 

And God , even our own God, shall bless us. 

7 God shall bless us ; and all the ends of 

the earth shall fear him. 

Psalm LXVIII. 

T ET God arise, let his enemies be scattered : 

Let them also that hate him flee before him. 

2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : 

As wax me It et J i before the fire, so let the wicked 
perish at the presence of God. 

3 But let the righteous be glad : let them rejoice 

before God : 
Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. 

4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name : extol 

him that rideth upon the heavens, 
By his name J AH, and rejoice before him. 



PSALMS. 



s 9 



5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the 

widows, 
Is God in Ids holy habitation* 

6 God setteth the solitary in families : he bringeth 

out those which are bound with chains : 
But the rebellions dwell in a dry land. 

7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, 

When thou didst march through the wilderness ; 

8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the 

presence of God ; 
Even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of 
God, the God of Israel. 

9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, 

Whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, 
when it was weary. 
IO Thy congregation hath dw r elt therein : 

Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for 
the poor. 
it The Lord gave the word : 

Great was the company of those that published it. 

12 Kings of armies did flee apace : 

And, she that tarried at Jiome divided the spoil. 

13 Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall 

ye be as the wings of a dove covered 
with silver, 
And her feathers with yellow gold. 

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, 

It was white as snow in Salmon. 

15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan ; 

A high hill, as the hill of Bashan. 

16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which 

God desireth to dwell in ; 
Yea, the LORD will dzuell in it for ever, 



go 



PSALMS. 



17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even 

thousands of angels : 
The LORD is among them, as in Sinai, in the 
holy place, 

18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led 

captivity captive : thou hast received 
gifts for men ; 
Yea, for the rebellions also, that the LORD God 
might dwell among them. 

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with 

benefits, 
Even the God of our salvation. 

20 He that is our God is the God of Salvation ; 

And unto God the LORD belong the issues from 
death, 

21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, 

And the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still 
in his trespasses. 

22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan ; 

/ will bring my people again from the depths of 
the sea : 

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine 

enemies, 

And the tongue of thy dogs in the same. 

24 They have seen thy .goings, O God : 

Even the goings of my God, my King, in the 
sanctuary. 

25 The singers went before, the players on instru- 

ments followed after : 
Among them were the damsels playing with 
timbrels. 

26 Bless ye God in the congregations, 

Even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel. 



PSALMS. 



27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, 
The princes of Judah and their council, 

The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of 
Naphtali. 

28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength : 

Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought 
for us. 

29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem 

Shall kings bring presents unto thee. 

30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude 

of the bulls, with the calves of the people, 
Till every one submit himself with pieces of 
silver : 

Scatter thou the people that delight in war. 

31 Princes shall come out of Egypt ; 

Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto 
God. 

32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth ; 

Oh sing praise unto the Lord ; 

33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, 

which were of old ; 
Lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty 
voice. 

34 Ascribe ye strength unto God : 

His excellency is over Israel, and his strength is 
in the clouds. 

35 O God, thou art terrible of thy holy places: 

The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and 
power unto his people. 
Blessed be God. 



9 2 PSALMS- 

Psalm LXIX. 

CAVE me, O God ; 

For the waters are come in unto my soul. 

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: 

/ am come into deep waters, where the floods 
overflow me, 

3 I am weary of my crying : my throat is dried : 

Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 

4 They that hate me without a cause are more 

than the hairs of mine head : they that 
would destroy me, being mine enemies 
wrongfully, are mighty : 
Then I restored that which I took not away. 

5 0 God, thou knowest my foolishness ; 

And my sins are not hid from thee. 

6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of 

hosts, be ashamed for my sake : 
Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my 
sake, 0 God of Israel. 

7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach ; 

Shame hath covered my face. 

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, 

And an alien unto my mother's children. 

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up ; 

And the reproaches of them that reproached thee 
are fallen upon me. 

10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, 

That was to my reproach. 

1 1 I made sackcloth also my garment ; 

A nd I became a proverb to them. 



PSALMS. 



95 



12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; 

And I was the song of the drunkards. 

13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, 0 LORD, 

in an acceptable time : 
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in 
the truth of thy salvation. 

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink : 

Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and 
out of the deep waters. 

15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let 

the deep swallow me up, 
And let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 

16 Hear me, O Lord ; for thy loving kindness is 

good : 

Turn unto me according to the multitude of thy 
tender mercies. 

17 And hide not thy face from thy servant ; 

For I am in trouble : hear me speedily. 

18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it : 

Deliver me because of mine enemies. 

19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and 

my dishonor : 
Mine adversaries are all before thee. 

20 Reproach hath broken- my heart ; 

And I am full of heaviness : 
And I looked for some to take pity, but there 
was none ; 
And for comforters, but I found none. 

21 They gave me also gall for my meat ; 

And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 

22 Let their table become a snare before them : 

And that which should have been for their welfare, 
let it become a trap. 



94 



PSALMS. 



23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not ; 

And make their loins continually to shake. 

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, 

And let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 

25 Let their habitation be desolate ; 

And let none dzvell in their tents. 

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten ; 

And they talk to the grief of those whom thou 
hast wounded. 

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity : 

And let them not come into thy righteousness. 

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the 

living, 

And not be written with the righteous. 

29 But I am poor and sorrowful : 

Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 

30 I will praise the name of God with a song; and 

will magnify him with thanksgiving. 

31 This also shall please the LORD better than an 

ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad : 

And your heart shall live that seek God. 

33 For the Lord heareth the poor, 

And despiseth not his prisoners \ 

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, 

The seas, and everything that moveth therein. 

35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities 

of Judah : 

That they may dwell there, and have it in 
possession. 

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it : 

And they that love his name shall dzvell therein. 



PSALMS. 



95 



Psalm LXX. 

TV /T AKE haste, O God, to deliver me ; 
iV Make haste to help me, O Lord. 

2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek 

after my soul : 
Let them be turned backward, and be put to 
confusion that desire my hurt. 

3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their 

shame that say, Aha, aha. 

4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad, 

ill thee : 

And let such as love thy salvation say continually, 
Let God be magnified. 

5 But I am poor and needy ; make haste unto me, 

O God: 

Thou art my help and my deliverer ; O Lord, 
make no tarrying.^ 



Psalm LXXI. 

TN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust : 

Let me never be put to confusion. 

2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to 

escape : 

Incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 

3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may 

continually resort: thou hast given com- 
mandment to save me ; 
For thou art my rock and my fortress. 



j6 



PSALMS. 



4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the 

wicked, 

Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel 
man. 

5 For thou art my hope, O Lord God : 

Thou art my trust from my youth. 

6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb : * 

thou art he that took me out of my 
mother's bowels : 
My praise shall be continually of thee. 

7 I am as a wonder unto many ; but thou art my 

strong refuge. 

8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and 

with thy honor all the day. 

9 Cast me not off in the time of old age ; 

Forsake me not when my strength faileth. 

10 For mine enemies speak against me ; 

And they that lay wait for my soul take counsel 
together, 

1 1 Saying, God hath forsaken him : persecute and 

take him ; 
For there is none to deliver him. 

12 O God, be not far from me ; 

0 my God, make haste for my help. 

13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are 

adversaries to my soul ; 
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor 
that seek my hurt. 

14 But I will hope continually, 

And will yet praise thee more and more. 

15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and 

thy salvation all the day ; 
For I know not the numbers thereof 



PSALMS. 



97 



1 6 I will go in the strength of the Lord God : 

I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of 
thine only. 

17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: 

And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous 
works. 

18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, 

forsake me not ; until I have shewed thy 
strength unto this generation, 
And thy power to every one that is to come. 

19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who 

hast done great things ; 
O God, who is like unto thee ! 
20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore 
troubles, shalt quicken me again, 
And shalt bring me up again from the depths of 
the earth. 

% Thou shalt increase my greatness, 
And comfort me on every side. 

2* I will also praise thee with the psaltery; even 

thy truth, O my God : 
Unto thee will I sing with the harp O thou Holy 

One of Israel. 
2\ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto 

thee ; 

And my soul, which thou hast redeemed. 
24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness 

all the day long : 
For they are confozntded, for they are brought 

unto shame, that seek my hurt. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm LXXII. 

IVE the king thy judgments, O God, 

And thy righteousness unto the king's son. 

2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, 

And thy poor with judgment. 

3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, 

And the little hills by righteousness. 

4 He shall judge the poor of the people, 

He shall save the children of the needy, and shell 
break in pieces the oppressor. 

5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon 

endure, 
Throughout all generations. 

6 He shall come down like rain upon the mowr 

grass ; 

/ 

As showers that water the earth. 
7 t In his days shall the righteous flourish; 

And abundance of peace so long as the modi 
endureth. 

8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, 

And from the river unto the ends of the earth. 

9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall b<w 

before him ; 
And his enemies shall lick the dust. 

10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall brjig 

presents : 

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts 

1 1 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him : 

All nations shall serve him. 

12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth 

The poor also, and him that hath no helper. 



PSALMS. 99 

13 He shall spare the poor and needy, 

And shall save the souls of the needy, 

14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and 

violence : 

And precious shall their blood be in his sight, 

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of 

the gold of Sheba: 
Prayer also shall be made for him continually j 
and daily shall he be praised, 

16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon 

the top of the mountains ; the fruit 
thereof shall shake like Lebanon : 
And they of the city shall flourish like grass of 
the earth, 

17 His name shall endure for ever : his name shall 

be continued as long as the sun : 
And men shall be blessed in him ; all nations 
shall call him blessed, 

18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, 

Who only doeth wondrous things, 

19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: 

And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. 
Amen, and Amen. 

20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are 

ended. 

Psalm LXXIII. 

"jTRULY God is good to Israel, 

Even to such as are of a clean heart, 

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone ; 

My steps had well nigh slipped, 

3 For I was envious at the foolish, 

When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 



IOO PSALMS. 

4 For there are no bands in their death : 

But their strength is firm. 

5 They are not in trouble as other men ; 

Neither are they plagued like other men. 

6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a 

chain ; 

Violence cover eth them as a garment. 

7 Their eyes stand out with fatness : 

They have more than heart could wish. 

8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning 

oppression : 
They speak loftily. 

9 They set their mouth against the heavens, 

And their tongue walketh through the earth. 
io Therefore his people return hither: 

A nd waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 

n And they say, How doth God know? 

And is there knowledge in the Most High ? 

12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in 

the world ; 
They increase in riches. 

13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, 

A nd washed my hands in innocency* 

14 For all the day long have I been plagued, 

And chastened every morning. 

15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should 

offend against the generation of thy 
children. 

16 When I thought to know this, it was too 

painful for me ; 

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; 

Then understood I their end. 



PSALMS. 



101 



18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: 

Thou castedst them down into destruction. 

19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a 

moment ! 

They are utterly consumed with terrors. 

20 As a dream when one awaketh ; so, O Lord, 

when thou awakest, thou shalt despise 
their image. 

2 1 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked 

in my reins. 

22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: 

/ was as a beast before thee. 

23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: 

Thou hast Iwlden me by my right hand. 

24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, 

A ?id afterward receive me to glory. 

25 Whom have I in heaven but thee ? 

A nd there is none upon eartli that I desire besides 
thee. 

26 My flesh and my heart faileth : . 

But God is the strength of my heart, and my 
portio?i for ever. 

27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish : 

Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring 
from thee. 

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God : 

I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may 
declare all thy works. 

Psalm LXXIV. 



GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever ? 
Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of 
thy pasture ? 



102 PSAT.M 

2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast 

purchased of old; the rod of thine 
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed ; 
This mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 

3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpeLual desolations; 

Even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in 
the sanctuary. 

4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congre- 

gations ; 

They set up their ensigns for signs. 

5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up 

axes upon the thick trees. 

6 But now they break down the carved work 

thereof at once with axes and hammers. 

7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, 

They have defiled by casting down the dwelling- 
place of thy name to the ground. 

8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them 

together : 

They have burned up all the synagogues of God 
in the land. 

9 We see not our signs : there is no more any 

prophet : 

Neither is there among us any that knoweth how 
long. 

10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? 

Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever ? 

1 1 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right 

hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom. 

12 For God is my king of old, zv or king salvation 

in the midst of the earth. 



PSALMS. 



I03 



13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength : 

Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the 
waters. 

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, 

And gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting 
the wilderness. 

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood : 

Thou driedst up mighty rivers. 

16 The day is thine, the night also is thine : 

Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 

17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: 

Thou hast made summer and winter. 

18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, 

O Lord, 

A nd that the foolish people have blasphemed thy 
name. 

19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto 

the multitude of the wicked : 

Forget not the congregatio?i of thy poor for ever. 

20 Have respect unto the covenant: 

For the dark places of the earth are full of the 
habitations of cruelty. 

21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed : 

Let the poor and needy praise thy name. 

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause : 

Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee 
daily. 

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies : 

The tumult of those that rise up against thee 
increaseth continually. 



104 PSALMS. 



Psalm LXXV. 

T 7 NTO thee, O God, do we give thanks ? unto thee 
do we give thanks : 

For that thy name is near, thy wondrous works 
declare. 

2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge 

uprightly. 

3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are 

dissolved : I bear up the pillars of it. 

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly : 

And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn : 

K Lift not up your^horn on high : speak not with a 
stiff neck. 

6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor 

from the west, nor from the south. 

7 But God is the judge: 

He putteth down one, and setteth up another. 

8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and 

the wine is red ; 
is full of mixture ; 
And he poureth out of the same : 

But the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the 
earth shall tvring them out, and drink 
them. 

9 But I will declare for ever ; 

/ will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; 

But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm LXXVI. 

JN Judah is God known: 

His name is great in Israel. 

2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, 

And his dwelling-place in Zion. 

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, 

The shield, and the sword, and the battle. 

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the 

mountains of prey. 

5 The stouthearted are spoiled, 

They have slept their sleep : 

And 71011 e of the men of might have found their 
hands. 

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, 

Both the chariot and horse are cetst into a dead 
sleep. 

7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared : 

And wlto may stand in thy sight when once thou 
art angry ? 

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from 

heaven ; 
The eartli feared, and was still. 

9 When God arose to judgment, 

To save all the meek of the earth. 

10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: 

The remainder of wrath s halt thou restrain. 

1 1 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God ; 

Let all that be round about him bring presents 
unto him that ought to be feared. 

12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes : 

He is terrible to the kings of the earth. 



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PSALMS. 



Psalm LXXVIL 

T CRIED unto God with my voice, even unto God 
with my voice ; 

And he gave ear unto me. 

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord : my 

sore ran in the night, and ceased not : 
My soul refused to be comforted. 

3 I remembered God, and was troubled : 

/ complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. 

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking ; 

/ am so troubled that I cannot speak. 

5 I have considered the days of old, 

The years of ancient times. 

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night : 

/ commune with mine own heart : and my spirit 
made diligent search. 

7 Will the LORD cast off for ever? 

And will he be favorable no more ? 

8 Is his mercy clean gone forever ? 

Doth his promise fail for evermore ? 

9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? 

Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? 

10 And I said, this is my infirmity : 

But I will remember the years of the right hand 
of the Most High. 

1 1 I will remember the works of the Lord : 

Surely I will remember thy wonders of old 0 

12 I will meditate also of all thy work, 

And talk of thy doings. 

13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: 

Who is so great a God as our God ? 



PSALMS. 



I07 



14 Thou art the God that doest wonders ; 

Thou hast declared thy strength among the 



15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, 

The sons of Jacob and Joseph, 

16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw 

thee ; 

They were afraid : the depths also were troubled. 

17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out 

3, sound : 
Thine arrows also went abroad. 

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the 

lightnings lightened the world : 
The earth trembled and shook. 

19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great 

waters, 

And thy footsteps are not known, 

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock 

By the hand of Moses and Aaron. 



^IVE ear, O my people, to my law : 

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth, 

2 I will open my mouth in a parable : 

/ will utter dark sayings of old: 

3 Which we have heard and known, 

A nd our fathers have told us. 

4 We will not hide them from their children, 

shewing to the generation to come the 
praises of the Lord, and his strength, 
And his wonderful works that he hath done. 



people. 



Psalm LXXVIII. 




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PSALMS. 



5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, 

And appointed a law in Israel, 
Which he commanded our fathers, 

That they should make them known to their 
children : 

6 That the generation to come might know them, 

even the children which should be born ; 

Who should arise and declare them to their 
children : 

7 That they might set their hope in God, and not 

forget the works of God, 

But keep his commandments : 

8 And might not be as their fathers, 

A stubborn and rebellious generation ; 
A generation that set not their heart aright, 
And whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carry- 

ing bows, 
Turned back in the day of battle. 

10 They kept not the covenant of God, 

And refused to walk in his law ; 

1 1 And forgat his works, 

And his wonders that he had shewed them. 

12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their 

fathers, 

In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass 

through ; 

A nd he made the waters to stand as a heap. 

14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, 

And all the night with a light of fire. 

15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, 

And gave them drink as out of the great depths. 



PSALMS. 



109 



16 He brought streams also out of the rock, 

And caused waters to run down like rivers. 

17 And they sinned yet more against him 

By provoking the Most High in the wilderness. 

18 And they tempted God in their heart 

By asking meat for their lust. 

19 Yea, they spake against God ; 

They said, Can God furnish a table in the 
wilderness ? 

20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters 

gushed out, and the streams overflowed ; 
Can he give bread also ? can he provide flesh for 
his people ? 

21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: 

So a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger 
also came up against Israel ; 
22, Because they believed not in God, 
A nd trusted not in his salvation : 

23 Though he had commanded the clouds from 

above, 

A nd ope?ied the doors of heaven. 

24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, 

And had given them of the corn of heaven. 

25 Man did eat angels' food : 

He sent them meat to the full. 

26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven : 

And by his power he brought in the south wind. 

27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, 

And feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea : 

28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, 

Round about their habitations. 

29 So they did eat, and were well filled : 

For he gave them their own desire : 



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PSALMS. 



30 They were not estranged from their lust : 

But while their meat was yet in their mouths, 

31 The wrath of God carne upon them, and slew the 

fattest of them, 
And smote down the chosen men of Israel. 

32 For all this they sinned still, 

And believed not for his wondrous works. 

33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, 

And their years in trouble. 

34 When he slew them, then they sought him : 

And they returned and inquired early after God. 

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, 

And the high God their Redeemer. 

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their 

mouth, 

And they lied unto him with their toiigues. 

37 For their heart was not right with him, 

Neither were they steadfast in his covenant. 

38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their 

iniquity, and destroyed them not : 
Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and 
did not stir up all his wrath. 

39 For he remembered that they were but flesh ; 

A wind that passeth away, and come th not again. 

40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, 

And grieve him in the desert ! 

41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, 

And limited the Holy One of Israel. 

42 They remembered not his hand, 

Nor the day when he delivered them from the 
enemy : 

43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, 

And his wonders in the field of Zoa?i : 



PSALMS. 



Ill 



44 And had turned their rivers into blood ; 

And their floods, that they could not drink. 

45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which 

devoured them ; 
And frogs, which destroyed them. 

46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, 

And their labor unto the locust. 

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, 

And their sycamore trees wit l h frost. 

48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, 

And their flocks to hot thunderbolts, 

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, 

Wrath, and indignation, and, trouble, by sending 
evil angels among them. 

50 He made a way to his anger ; he spared not their 

soul from death, 
But gave their life over to tlie pestilence : 

51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt ; 

The chief of their strength in the tabernacles of 
Ham : 

52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, 

A?id guided them in tlie wilderness like a flock. 

53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared 

not : 

But the sea overiuhelmed their enemies. 

54 And he brought them to the border of his 

sanctuary, 

Even to this mountain, which his right hand had 
purchased. 

55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and 

divided them an inheritance by line, 
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their 
tents. 



112 



PSALMS. 



56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high 

God, 

And kept 7io t his testimonies : 

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their 

fathers : 

They were turned aside like a deceitful bozv. 

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high 

places, 

And moved him to jealousy with their graven 
images. 

59 When God heard this, he was wroth, 

And greatly abhorred Israel: 

60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, 

The tent which he placed among men ; 

61 And delivered his strength into captivity, 

And his glory into the enemy s hand. 

62 He gave his people over also unto the sword ; 

And was wroth with his inheritance. 

63 The fire consumed their young men ; 

And their maidens zvere not given to marriage. 

64 Their priests fell by the sword ; 

And their widows made no lamentation. 

65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, 

A?id like a mighty man that shouteth by reason 
of wine. 

66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts : 

He put them to a perpetual reproach. 

67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, 

And chose not the tribe of Ephraim : 

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, 

The mount Zion which he loved. 

69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, 

Like the earth which he hath established for ever. 



PSALMS. 



I I 1 



70 He chose David also his servant, 

And took him from the sheep folds : 

71 From following the ewes great with young he 

brought him to feed Jacob his people, 
And Israel his inheritance. 

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his 

heart ; 

And guided them by the skilf illness of his hands. 

Psalm LXXIX. 

f~\ GOD, the heathen are come into thine inherit^ 
ance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; 
They have laid ferusalem on heaps. 

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given 

to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, 
The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the 
earth. 

3 Their blood have they shed like water round 

about Jerusalem ; 

A nd theve was none to bury tlicm. 

4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, 

A scorn and derision to them that are round 
about us. 

5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? 

Shall thy jealousy burn like fire ? 

6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have 

not known thee. 
And upon the kingdoms that have not called upon 
thy name. 

7 For they have devoured Jacob, 

And laid waste his dwelling-place. 



114 PSALMS 

8 O remember not against us former iniquities : 

Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent its ; for 
we are brought very low. 

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of 

thy name : 

And deliver us, and purge away our sins ; for thy 
name's sake. 

10 Wherefore should the heathen say, 

Where is their God? 
Let him be known among the heathen in ou: sight 
By the revenging of the blood of thy servants 
which is shed. 

1 1 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before 

thee ; 

According to the greatness of thy power preserve 
thou those that are appointed to die ; 

12 And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into 

their bosom their reproach, 
Wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. 

13 So we thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, will 

give thee thanks for ever : 
We will shew forth thy praise to all generations. 



Psalm LXXX. 

IVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest 
Joseph like a flock ; 

Thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine 
forth. 

2 Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, 
stir up thy strength, 

A nd come and save us. 



PSALMS. 



US 



3 Turn us again, O God, 

And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 

4 O Lord God of hosts, 

How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer 
of thy people ? 

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears ; 

And givest them tears to drink in great measure. 

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors : 

And our enemies laugh among themselves. 

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, 

And cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be 
saved. 

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : 

Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 

9 Thou preparedst room before it, 

And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled 
the land, 

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, 

And the boughs thereof zvere like the goodly 
cedars. 

11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, 

And her branches unto the river. 

12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, 

So that all they which pass by the way do pluck 
her ? 

13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, 

And the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 

14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: 

Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit 
this vine ; 



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PSALMS. 



15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath 

planted, 

And the branch that thou madest strong for 
tkysd* 

16 It is burned wit a fire, it is cut down : 

They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, 

Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong 
for thyself. 

18 So will not we go back from thee : 

Quicke?i tiSj and we will call upon thy name* 

19 Turn »is again, O LORD God of hosts, 

Ca < se thy face to shine ; and we shall he saved. 

Psalm LXXXI. 

OING aloud unto God our strength; 

Make a joy fid noise unto the God of Jacob. \ 

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, 

The pleasant harp with the psaltery. 

3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, 

In the tune appointed, on our solemn feast day. 

4 For this was a statute for Israel, 

And a law of the God of Jacob. 

5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when 

he went out through the land of Egypt : 
Where I heard a language that I understood not. 

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden : 

His hands were delivered from the pots. 

7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee : 

/ answered thee in the secret place of thunder : I 
proved thee at the waters of Meribah. 



PSALMS. 



117 



3 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee ; 

O Israel, if thou wilt hearken 7 into me ; 
9 There shall no strange god be in thee : 

Neither shalt thou worship any strange god 

10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out 

of the land of Egypt : 
Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 

1 1 But my people would not hearken to my voice ; 

And Israel would none of me. 

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust : 

And they walked in their own 002ms els. 

1 3 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, 

A nel Israel had walked in my ways ! 

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, 

A nd turned my hand against their adversaries. 

15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted 

themselves unto him : 
But their ti7ne should have endured for ever. 

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of 

the wheat : 

And with honey out of the rock should I have 
satisfied thee. 

Psalm LXXXII. 

OD standeth in the congregation of the mighty ; 

He judgeth among the gods. 

2 How long will ye judge unjustly, 

And accept the persons of the wicked? 

3 Defend the poor and fatherless ; 

Do justice to the afflicted and needy. 

4 Deliver the poor and needy : 

Rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 



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PSALMS. 



5 They know not, neither will they understand : 

they walk on in darkness : 

All the foundations of the earth are out of course. 

6 I have said, Ye are gods ; 

And all of you are children of the Most High. 

7 But ye shall die like men, 

And fall like one of the princes, 

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth : 

For thou shalt inherit all nations. 



Psalm LXXXIII. 

T^EEP not thou silence, O God: 

Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 

2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult : 

And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 

3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy 

people, 

And consulted against thy hidden ones. 

4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them oft 

from being a nation ; 
That the name of Israel may be no more in 
remembrance. 

5 For they have consulted together with one 

consent : 
They are confederate against thee ; 

6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites ; 

Of Moab, and the Hagarenes ; 

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek ; 

The Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre ; 

8 Assur also is joined with them : 

They have holpen the children of Lot. 



PSALMS. 



II 9 



9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites ; 

As to Sis era, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison : 

10 Which perished at En-dor : 

They became as dung for the earth. 

1 1 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb : 

Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zal- 
munna : 

12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of 

God in possession. 

13 O my God, make them like a wheel ; as the stubble 

before the wind. 

14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame 

setteth the mountains on fire ; 

15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make 

them afraid with thy storm. 

16 Fill their faces with shame ; 

That they may seek thy name, O LORD. 

17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; 

Yea, let them be put to sliame, and perish : 

18 That men may know that thou, whose name 

alone is JEHOVAH, 
Art the Most High over all the earth. 



Psalm LXXXIV 

TLTOW amiable are thy tabernacles, 

1 O Lord of hosts ! 
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts 
of the Lord : 
My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living 
Cod. 



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PSALMS. 



3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, 

And the swallow a nest for herself y where she 
may lay her young, 
Even thine altars, O LORD of hosts 
My King and my God. 

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : 

They zvill be still praising thee. 

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; 

In whose heart are the ways of them ; 

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it 

a well : 

The rain also filleth the pools. 

7 They go from strength to strength, 

Every one of them in Zion appear eth before God. 

8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer : 

Give ear, 0 God of Jacob 

9 Behold, O God our shield, 

And look upon the face of thine anointe 

10 For a day in thy courts is -better than a thousand. 

/ had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my 
God, than to dwell in the tents of wicked- 
ness. 

1 1 For the Lord God is a sun and shield : the LORD 

will give grace and glory : 
No good thing will he withhold from them that 
walk uprightly. 

12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that 

TRUSTETH IN THEE. 



PSALMS. 



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Psalm LXXXV. 



F ORD, thou hast been favorable unto thy land : 
Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 

2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people ; 

Thou hast covered all their sin. 

3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath : 

Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness 



4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, 

And, cause thine anger toward us to cease. 

5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? 

Wilt thou draw out t J line anger to all genera- 



6 Wilt thou not revive us again : 

That thy people may rejoice in thee ? 

7 Shew us thy mercy, O "Lord, 

And grant us thy salvation. 

8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak : for 

he will speak peace unto his people, and 
to his saints : 
But let them not turn again to folly. 

9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; 

That glory may dwell in our land. 

10 Mercy and truth are met together ; 

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 

1 1 Truth shall spring out of the earth ; 

And righteousness shall look down from heaven. 

12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; 

And our land shall yield her increase. 

13 Righteousness shall go before him; 

And shall set us. in the way of his steps. 




of thine anger. 



tions ? 



122 



PSALMS. 



Psalm LXXXVI. 

JgOW down thine ear, O Lord, hear me : 
For I am poor and needy. 

2 Preserve my soul ; for I am holy : 

0 thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth 
in thee. 

3 Be merciful unto me, 0 Lord : 

For I cry unto thee daily. 

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant : 

For unto thee, O LORD, do I lift tip my soul. 

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive ; 

And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call 
upon thee. 

6 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer , 

And attend to the voice of my supplications. 

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee : 

For thou wilt answer me. 

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, 

O Lord ; 

Neither are there a?iy works like unto thy works. 

9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and 

worship before thee, O Lord ; 
And shall glorify thy name. 

10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: 

Thou art God alone. 

1 1 Teach me thy way, O LORD ; I will walk in thy 

truth : 

Unite my heart to fear thy name. 

12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all nry 

heart : 

A nd I zvill glorify thy name for evermore. 



PSALMS. 



123 



1 3 For great is thy mercy toward me : 

And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest 
hell. 

14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the 

assemblies of violent men have sought 
after my soul ; 
And have not set thee before them. 

15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, 

and gracious, 
Long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 

16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; 

Give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the 
son of thine handmaid. 

17 Shew me a token for good : that they which 

hate me may see it, and be ashamed : 
Because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and com- 
forted me. 



Psalm LXXXVIL 

TTIS foundation is in the holy mountains. 
2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion 
More than all the dwellings of Jacob. 

3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, 

0 city of God. 

4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to 

them that know me : 
Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia ; this 
man was born there. 

5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man 

was born in her : 
And the Highest himself shall establish her* 



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PSALMS. 



6 The Lord shall count, when he writetn up the 

people, 

That this man was born there. 

7 As well the singers as the players on instruments 

shall be there : 
All my springs are in thee. 

Psalm LXXXVIII. 

f~\ LORD God of my saltation, I have cried day 
and night before thee : 

2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine 

ear unto my cry ; 

3 For my soul is full of troubles : 

And my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 

4 I am counted with them that go down into the 

pit: 

/ am as a man that hath no strength : 

5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in 

the grave, whom thou rememberest no 
more : 

And they are cut off from thy hand. 

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, 

In darkness, in the deeps. 

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, 

And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. 

8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from 

me ; thou hast made me an abomination 
unto them : 
/ am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 

9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction : 

LORD, I have called daily upon thee', 
/ have stretched out my hands unto thee. 



PSALMS. 



10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead ? 

Shall the dead arise and praise thee ? 

1 1 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the 

grave ? 

Or thy faithfulness in destruction ? 

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? 

And thy righteousness in the land of for get- 
fulness ? 

13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ; 

And in the morning shall my prayer prevent 
thee, 

14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul ? 

Why hide st thou thy face from me ? 

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth 

up: 

While I su ffer thy terrors I am distracted. 

16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ; 

Thy terrors have cut me off. 

17 They came round about me daily like water; 

They compassed me about together. 

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, 

And mine acquainta?ice into darkness. 

Psalm LXXXIX. 

J WILL sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: 
With my mouth will I make known thy faithful- 
ness to all ge?ierations. 
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever : 
Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very 
heavens. 



126 



PSALMS. 



3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, 

/ have sworn unto David my servant \ 

4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, 

And build tip thy throne to all generations. 

5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O 

Lord : 

Thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the 
saints. 

6 For who in the heavens can be compared unto 

the Lord ? 

Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened 
unto the LORD ? 

7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of 

the saints, 

And to be had in reverence of all them that are 
about him. 

8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD 

like unto thee ? 
Or to thy faithfulness round about thee? 

9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea : 

When the waves thereof arise thou stillest them. 

10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is 

slain ; 

Thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong 
arm. 

1 1 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : 

As for the world and the fulness thereof, thou 
hast founded them. 

12 The north and the south, thou hast created 

them : 

Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 

13 Thou hast a mighty arm: 

Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand* 



PSALMS 



127 



14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy 

throne : 

Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful 

sound : 

They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy 
countenance. 

16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: 

And in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. 

17 For thou art the glory of their strength ; 

And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. 

18 For the Lord is our defence ; 

And the Holy One of Israel is our king. 

19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and 

saidst, I have laid help upon one that is 
mighty ; 

/ have exalted one chosen out of the people. 

20 I have found David my servant ; 

With my holy oil have I anointed hint, 

21 With whom my hand shall be established : 

Mine arm also shall strengthen him. 

22 The enemy shall not exact upon him: 

Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 

23 And I will beat down his foes before his 

face, 

And plague them that hate him. 

24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with 

him ; 

And in my name shall his horn be exalted. 

25 I will set his hand also in the sea, 

And his right hand in the rivers. 

26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, 

My God, and the Rock of my salvation. 



128 



PSALMS. 



27 Also I will make him my first-born, 

Higher than the kings of the earth. 

28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, 

And my covenant shall stand fast with him. 

29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, 

And his throne as the days of heaven. 

30 If his children forsake my law, 

A nd walk not in my judgments ; 

31 If they break my statutes, 

And keep not my commandments ; 

32 Then will I visit their transgression with the 

rod, 

And their iniquity with stripes. 

33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not 

utterly take from him, 
Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 

34 My covenant will I not break, 

Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips, 

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not 

lie unto David. 

36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as 

the sun before me. 

37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, 

And as a faithful witness in heaven. 

38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, 

Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 

39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy 

servant : 

Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the 
ground. 

40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges ; 

Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. 



PSALMS. 



329 



41 All that pass by the way spoil him : 

He is a reproach to his neighbors. 

42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his 

adversaries ; 
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 

43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, 

And hast not made him to stand in the battle. 

44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, 

And cast his throne down to the ground. 

45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened : 

Thou hast covered him with shame. 

46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for 

ever ? 

Shall thy wrath burn like fire ? 

47 Remember how short my time is : 

Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ? 

48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see 

death ? 

Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the 
grave ? 

49 LORD, where are thy former loving-kindnesses, • 

Which thou swarest unto David in thy truth ? 

50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants ; 

How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all 
the mighty people ; 

51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O 

Lord ; 

Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of 
thine anointed. 

52 Blessed be the lord for evermore. 

Amen, and Amen. 



130 



PSALMS. 



Psalm XC 



|T ORD, thou hast been our dwelling-place, 

hi all generations. 
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever 
thqu hadst formed the earth and the 
world, 

Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art 



3 Thou turnest man to destruction ; 

And say est, Return, ye children of men. 

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as 

yesterday when it is past, 
And as a zvatch in the night. 

5 Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they 

are as a sleep : 
In the morning they are like grass which groweth 



6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; 

In the eve7iing it is cut down, and withereth. 

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, 

And by thy wrath are we troubled. 

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, 

Our secret sins in the light of thy counte7iance. 

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath * 

We spend our years as a tale that is told. 
io The days of our years are threescore years and 
ten : 

And if by reaso7i of strength they be fourscore 
years, 

Yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; 
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 




God. 



up ; 



PSALMS. 131 

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? 

Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 

12 So teach us to number our days. 

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

13 Return, O Lord, how long? 

And, let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy: 

That we may rejoice and be glad, all our days. 

1 5 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou 

hast afflicted us, 
A nd the years wherein we have seen evil. 

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 

And thy glory unto their children. 

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be 

upon us: 

And establish thou the work of our hands upon 
us ; 

Yea, the work of our hands establish 

THOU IT. 

Psalm XCI. 

IT E that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most 
ri High, 

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my 

fortress: 
My God > in him will I trust. 

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the 

fowler, 

And from the noisome pestilence 0 

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under 

his wings shalt thou trust : 
His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 



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PSALMS. 



5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by 

night, 

Nor for the arrow that flieth by day, 

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness. 

Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thou- 

sand at thy right hand ; 
But it shall not come nigh thee. 

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, 

And see the reward of the wicked. 

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my 

refuge, 

Even the Most High, thy habitation y 

10 There shall no evil befall thee, 

Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 

1 1 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, 

To keep thee in all thy ways. 

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, 

Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: 

The young lion, and the dragon, shalt thou 
trample under feet. 

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore 

will I deliver him : 
/ will set him on high, because he hath known my 
name. 

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him : I 

will be with him in trouble ; 

/ will deliver him, and, honor him. 

16 With long life will I satisfy him, 

And shew him my salvation. 



PSALMS. 



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Psalm XCII. 

tT is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, 
* And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High : 

2 To shew forth thy loving-kindness in the 

morning, 
And thy faithfulness every night, 

3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the 

psaltery ; 
Upon the harp with a solemn sound. 

4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through 

thy work : 

I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 

5 O Lord, how great are thy works ! 

And thy thoughts are very deep. 

6 A brutish man knoweth not ; 

Neither doth a fool understand this. 

7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when 

all the wor kers of iniquity do flourish ; it 
is that they shall be destroyed for ever : 

8 But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore. 

9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine 

enemies shall perish ; 
All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 

10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a 

unicorn : 
/ shall be anointed with fresh oiL 

11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine 

enemies, 

And mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked 
that rise up against me. 



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PSALMS. 



12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: 

He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 

13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord 

Shall flourish in the courts of our God. 

14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age ; 

They shall be fat and flourishing ; 

15 To shew that the Lord is upright : 

He is my Rock, and there is no unright- 
ousness in him. 

Psalm XCIII. 

'THE Lord reigneth, 

He is clothed with majesty ; 
The LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith 
he hath girded himself : 
The world also is stablished, that it cannot be 
moved. 

2 Thy throne is established of old : 

Thou art from everlasting. 

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods 

have lifted up their voice ; 
The floods lift up their waves. 

4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of ' 

many waters, 
Yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. 

5 Thy testimonies are very sure : 

Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever. 

Psalm XCIV. 



LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth ; 
O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thy- 
self. 



PSALMS. 



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2 Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth : 

Render a reward to the proud, 

3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, 

How long shall the wicked triumph ? 

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard 

things? 

And all the workers of iniquity boast themselves ? 

5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, 

And afflict thine Iter it age, 

6 They slay the widow and the stranger, 

And murder the fatherless. 

7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, 

Neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 

8 Understand, ye brutish among the people : 

And ye fools, when will ye be uise ? 

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? 

He that formed tlie eye, shall he not see ? 

10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he 

correct ? 

He that teachetJi man knowledge, shall not he 
know ? 

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man. 

That they are vanity, 

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O 

Lord, 

And te ache st him out of thy law ; 

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of 

adversity, 
Until the pit be digged for the wicked. 

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, 

Neither will he forsake his inheritance. 

15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: 

And all the upright in heart shall follow it. 



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PSALMS 



16 Who will rise up for me against the evil doers? 

Or who will sta7id up for me against the workers 



17 Unless the Lord had been my help, 

My soul had almost dwelt in silence. 

18 When I said, My foot slippeth ; 

Thy mercy, 0 Lord, held me up. 

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me 

Thy comforts delight my soul. 

20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with 

thee, 

Which frame th mischief by a law ? 
•21 They gather themselves together against the 
soul of the righteous, 
And condemn the innocent blood. 

22 But the Lord is my defence; 

And my God is the rock of refuge. 

23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, 

And shall cut them off in their wickedness ; 
Yea, the Lord our God shall cut them 



< ~*\ come, let us sing unto the Lord : 

Let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our 

salvation. 

2 Let us come before his presence with thanks- 

giving, 

And make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 

3 For the Lord is a great God, 

And a great King above all gods. 



of iniquity ? 



OFF. 



Psalm XCV. 




PSALMS. 



T 37 



4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth : 

The strength of the hills is his also. 

5 The sea is his, and he made it ; 

And his hands formed the dry land, 

6 0 come, let us worship and bow down : 

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. 

7 For he is our God ; 

And we are the people of his pasture, and the 
sheep of his hand. 

8 To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your 

heart, as in the provocation, 
And as in the day of temptation in the wil- 
derness : 

9 When your fathers tempted me, 

Proved me, and saw my zvork. 
io Forty years long was I grieved with this genera- 
tion, and said, It is a people that do err 
in their heart, 
And they have not known my ways : 
1 1 1 Unto whom I sware in my wrath, 

That they should not enter into my rest. 



Psalm XCVI. 

sing unto the Lord a new song : 
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth. 

2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name ; 

Shew forth his salvation from day to day. 

3 Declare his glory among the heathen, 

His wonders among all -people. 

4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised : 

He is to be feared above all gods. 



PSALMS. 



5 For all the gods of the nations are idols : 

But the LORD made the heavens. 

6 Honor and majesty are before him: 

Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 

7 Give unto the LORD,.0 ye kindreds of the people, 

Give unto the LORD glory and strength. 9 

8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : 

Bring an o ffering, and, come into his courts. 

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : 

Fear before him, all the earth. 

10 Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth : 

the world also shall be established that it 
shall not be moved : 
He shall judge the people righteously. 

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be 

glad ; 

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. 

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: 

Then shall the trees of the wood rejoice ^ 

13 Before the LORD : for he cometh, 

For he cometh to judge the earth : 
He shall judge the world with righteousness, 
And the people with his truth. 



JpHE LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; 

Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. 
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him : 

Righteousness and judgment are the habitation 



3 A fire goeth before him, 

And burnetii up his enemies round about. 



Psalm XCVIL 




of his throne'. 



PSALMS. 



4 His lightnings enlightened the world 

The earth saw, and trembled. 

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the 

Lord, 

At the presence of the LORD of the whole earth. 

6 The heavens declare his righteousness, 

And all the people see J lis glory. 

7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, 

that boast themselves of idols : 
Worship him, all ye gods. 

8 Zion heard and was glad : and the daughters of 

Judah rejoiced, 
Because of thy judgments, O Lord. 

9 For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth : 

Thou art exalted far above all gods. 

10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil : he preserveth 

the souls of his saints ; 
He deliver eth them out of the hand of the wicked. 

1 1 Light is sown for the righteous, 

And gladness for the upright in heart. 

12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous, 

And give thanks at the remembrance of his 
holiness. 

Psalm XCVIII. 

sing unto the Lord a new song ; for he hath 

done marvellous things : 
His right hand and his holy arm, hath gotten 
him the victory. 
2 The Lord hath made known his salvation : 

His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the 
sight of the heathen, 



PSALMS. 



3 He hath remembered his mercy and his triith 

toward the house of Israel : 

All the e?zds of the earth have seen the salvation 
of our God, 

4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth : 

Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 

5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp ; 

With the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 

6 With trumpets, and sound of cornet, 

Make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. 

7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof ; 

The world, and they that dwell therein. 

8 Let the floods clap their hands : 

Let the hills be joyful together 

9 Before the Lord ; for he cometh to judge the 

earth ; 

With righteousness shall lie judge the world, and 
the people with equity. 



Psalm XCIX. 

THE Lord reigneth; let the people tremble : 

He sitteth between the cherubim ; let the earth be 
moved. 

2 The Lord is great in Zion ; 

And he is high above all t lie people. 

3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name ; 

For it is holy. 

4 The king's strength also loveth judgment ; thou 

dost establish equity, 
Thou executest judgment and righteousness in 
Jacob. 



PSALMS. 



141 



5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, 

And worship at his footstool ; for he is holy. 

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel 

among them that call upon his name ; 
They called upon the Lord, and he answered 
them, 

7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: 

They kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that 
he gave them. 

8 Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God : 

Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though 
thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. 

9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his 

holy hill; 
For the Lord our God is holy. 

Psalm C. 

"A /TAKE a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye 
1V1 lands. 

2 Serve tJie Lord with gladness : come before J lis 

presence with singing. 

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God : it is he that 

hath made us, and not we ourselves ; 
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into 

his courts with praise : 
Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 

5 For the Lord is good ; his mercy is everlasting ; 

And his truth endureth to all generations. 

Psalm CI. 

WILL sing of mercy and judgment : 

Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. 



142 



PSALMS. 



2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. 

0 when wilt thou come unto me ? 

/ will walk within my house with a perfect 
heart. 

5 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes : 

I hate the work of them that turn aside ; it shall 
not cleave to me. 

4 A froward heart shall depart from me: 

/ will not know a wicked person. 

5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will 

1 cut off : 

Him that hath a high look and a proud heart 
will not I suffer. 

6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, 

that they may dwell with me : 

He that walketh ill a perfect way, he shall serve 
me. 

7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within 

my house : 

He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 

8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, 

That I may cut off all wicked doers from the 
city of the LORD. 

Psalm CII. 

TLX EAR my prayer, O LORD, 

And let my cry come unto thee. 

2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I 

am in trouble ; incline thine ear unco me : 
In the day when I call answer me speedily. 

3 For my days are consumed like smoke, 

And my bones are burned as a hearth. 



PS * LMS. 



H3 



4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; 

So that I forget to eat my bread. 

5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones 

cleave to my skin, 

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness : 

I am like an owl of the desert. 

7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the 

housetop. 

8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day ; 

And they that are mad against me are sworn 
against me, 

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, 

And mingled my drink with weeping, 

10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath : 

For thou hast lifted me up, and east me down, 

11 My days are like a shadow that declined} : 

A nd I am withered like grass, 

12 But thou, 0 LORD, shalt endure for ever ; 

And thy remembrayice unto all generations, 

13 Thou shalt. arise, and have mercy upon Zion : 

For the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is 
come. 

14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, 

And favor the dust thereof. 

15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD 

And all the kings of the earth thy glory. 

16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, 

He shall appear in his glory. 

17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, 

And not despise their prayer. 

18 This shall be written for the generation to come, 

And the people which shall be created shall praise 
the Lord. 



PSALMS. 



19 For he hath looked down from the height of his 

sanctuary ; 

From heaven did the Lord behold the earth ; 

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner: 

To loose those that are appointed to death ; 

21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, 

And his praise in Jerusalem ; 

22 When the people are gathered together, 

And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. 

23 He weakened my strength in the way; 

He shortened my days* 

24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst 

of my days : 
Thy years are throughout all generations. 

25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the 

earth : 

And the heavens are the work of thy hands. 

26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure : 

Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; 
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they 
shall be changed : 

27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have 

no end. 

28 The children of thy servants shall continue, 

And their seed shall be established before thee. 

Psalm CIII. 

gLESS the Lord, O my soul: 

And all that is within me, bless his holy name. 
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, 

And forget not all his be?ieftts : 



PSALMS 



3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; 

Who healeth all thy diseases ; 

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; 

Who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and 
tender mercies : 

5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; 

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle s. 

6 The LORD executeth righteousness, 

A nd judgment for all that are oppressed, 

7 He made known his ways unto Moses, 

His acts unto the children of Israel. 

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, 

Slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. 

9 He will not always chide : 

Neither will he keep his anger forever. 

10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; 

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 

1 1 For as the heaven is high above the earth, 

So great is his mercy toward them that fear him, 

12 As far as the east is from the west, 

So far hath he removed our transgressions from 
us. 

13 Like as a father pitieth his children, 

So the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 

14 For he knoweth our frame ; 

He remembereth that we are dust. 

15 As for man, his days are as grass : 

As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 

16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; 

And the place thereof shall know it 710 more. 

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting 

to everlasting upon them that fear him. 
And his righteousness unto children's children ; 



PSALMS. 



1 8 To such as keep his covenant, 

A nd to those that remember his commandments 
to do them. 

19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the 

heavens : 
And his kingdom rnleth over all. 

20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in 

strength, 

That do his commandments, hearkening unto the 
voice of his word. 

21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts ; 

Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 

22 Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places of his 

dominion : 
Bless the Lord, O my soul. 

Psalm CIV. 

JgLESS the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God 
thou art very great ; 
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. 

2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a 

garment : 

Who stretcltest out the heavens like a curtain : 

3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the 

waters : who maketh the clouds his 
chariot : 

Who zvalketh upon the zvings of the zvind : 

4 Who maketh his angels spirits ; 

His ministers a flaming fire : 

5 Who laid the foundation of the earth, 

That it should not be removed for ever. 



PSALMS. 



6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a 

garment : 

The waters stood above the mountains* 

7 At thy rebuke they fled ; 

At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 

8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by 

the valleys, 

Unto the place which thou hast founded for 
them. 

9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass 

over ; 

That they turn not again to cover the earth. 

10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, 

vVhich run among the hills. 

1 1 They give drink to every beast of the field : 

The wild asses quench their thirst. 

12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their 

habitation, 
Which sing among the branches. 

13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: 

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy zvorks. 

14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, 

And herb for the service of man : 
That he may bring forth food out of the earth ; 

1 5 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man. 
And oil to make his face to shine, 

And bread which strengtheneth mans heart. 

16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap ; 

The cedars o f Lebano7i y which he hath planted ; 

17 Where the birds make their nests : 

As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, 

And the rocks for the conies. 



PSALMS. 



19 He appointed the moon for seasons: 

The sun knoweth his going dow?i. 

20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night : 

Wherein all the beasts of the forests do creep 
forth. 

21 The young lions roar after their prey, 

A nd seek their meat from God. 

22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, 

A nd lay them doivn in their dens, 

23 Man goeth forth unto his work, 

And to his labor until the evening. 

24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom 

hast thou made them all : 
The earth is full of thy riches. 

25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things 

creeping innumerable, 
Both small and great beasts. 

26 There go the ships : 

There is that leviathan, whom thou hast made 

to play therein. 
2J These wait all upon thee : 

That thou may est give them their meat in due 

season. 

28 That thou givest them they gather : 

Thou ope nest thine hand, they are filled-with good. 

29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: 

Thou takest away their breath, they die, and 
return to their dust. 

30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : 

And thou renewest the face of the earth. 

31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever : 

The Lord shall rejoice in his works. 



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32 He looketh on the earth, and it trcmblcth : 

He touchcth the hills, and they smoke, 

33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live : 

I iv ill sing praise to my God while I have my 
beiifg. 

34 My meditation of him shall be sweet : 

I will be glad in the LORD. 

35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, 

And let the wicked be no more, * 
Bless thou the Lord, O my souL 
Praise ye the Lord. 

Psalm CV. 

GIVE thanks unto the Lord ; call upon his 
name ; 

Make known his deeds among the people. 

2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him : 

Talk ye of all his wondrous works. 

3 Glory ye in his holy name : 

Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord, 

4 Seek the Lord, and his strength ; 

Seek his face evermore, 

5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath 

done ; 

His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth ; 

6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, 

Ye children of Jacob his chosen. 

7 He is the Lord our God : 

His judgments are in all the earth. 

8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, 

The word which he commanded to a thousand 
generations. 



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PSAI/MS. 



9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, 
And his oath unto Isaac. 

10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, 

And to Israel for an everlasting covenant : 

1 1 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, 

The lot of your inheritance : 

12 When they were but a few men in number ; 

Yea, very few, and strangers in it. 

13 When they went from one nation to another, 

From one kingdom to another people : 

14 Fie suffered no man to do them wrong: 

Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 

15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, 

And do my prophets no harm. 

16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land : 

He brake the whole staff of bread. 

17 He sent a man before them, 

Even Joseph, who was sold for a servant : 

18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: 

He was laid in iron : 

19 Until the time that his word came: 

The word of the LORD tried him. 

20 The king sent and loosed him : 

Even the ruler of the people, and let him go free, 

21 He made him lord of his house, 

And ruler of all his substance : 

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; 

A nd teach his senators wisdom. 

23 Israel also came into Egypt; 

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 

24 And he increased his people greatly ; 

And made them stronger than their enemies. 



PSALMS. 



25 He turned their heart to hate his people, 

To deal subtil ely with his servants. 

26 He sent Moses his servant ; 

And A a? 'on zi 'horn he had chose 72. 

27 They shewed his signs among them, 

And wonders in the land of Ham. 

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark ; 

And the j rebelled not against his word 

29 He turned their waters into blood, 

And slew their fish. 

30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, 

In the chambers of their kings. 

31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flier 

And lice in all their coasts. 

32 He gave them hail for rain, # 

And flaming fire in their land. 

33 He smote their vines also, and their fig trees 

And brake the trees of their coasts. 

34 He spake, and the locusts came, 

And caterpillars, and that without number 

35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, 

And devoured the fruit of their ground. 
30 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, 
The chief of all their strength. 

37 He brought them forth also with silver and g 

And there was not one feeble person among t 
tribes. 

38 Egypt was glad when they departed ; 

For the fear of them fell upon tJiem. 

39 He spread a cloud for a covering; 

A.nd fire to give light in the night. 

40 The people asked, and he brought quails, 

And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 



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PSALMS. 



41 He opened the rock and the waters gushed out ; 

They ran in the dry places like a river. 

42 For he remembered his holy promise, 

And Abraham , his servant. 

43 And he brought forth his people with joy, 

And his chosen with gladness : 

44 And gave them the lands of the heathen : 

And they inherited the labor of the people ; 

45 That they might observe his statutes, 

And keep his laws. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



• Psalm CVL 

13 RAISE ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the 
LORD ; for he is good : 
For his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD ? 

Who can shew forth all his praise ? 

3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, 

And he that doeth righteousness cct all times. 

4 Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that thou 

bearest unto thy people : 
0 visit me with thy salvation ; 

5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I 

may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, 
That I may glory with thine inheritance. 

6 We have sinned with our fathers, 

We have committed iniquity y we have done 
wickedly. 



PSALMS. I53 

7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in 

Egypt ; 

They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; 
But provoked him at the sea, 
Even at the Red Sea. 

8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, 

That he might make his mighty power to be 
known. 

9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried 

up : 

So he led them through the depths, as through 
the wilderness. 

10 And he saved them from the hand of him that 

hated them, 
And redeemed t/iem from the ha?id of the enemy. 

11 And the waters covered their enemies: 

There was not one of them left. 

12 Then believed they his words; 

They sang his praise. 

13 They soon forgat his works ; 

They waited not for his counsel : 

14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, 

And tempted God in the desert. 

15 And he gave them their request; 

But sent leanness into their soul. 

16 They envied Moses also in the camp, 

And Aaron the saint of the Lord. 

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, 

And covered the company of Abiram. 

18 And a fire was kindled in their company ; 

The flame burned up the wicked. 

19 They made a calf in Horeb, 

A? id worshipped the molten image. 



154 



PSALMS. 



20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude 

of an ox that eateth grass. 

21 They for gat God their saviour, which had done 

great things in Egypt ; 

22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, 

And terrible things by the Red Sea. 

23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, 

Had 7tot Moses his chosen stood before him in 
the breach, 
To turn away his wrath, 
Lest he should destroy them. 

24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, 

They believed not his word : 

25 But murmured in their tents, 

And hear ke7ied not unto the voice of the LORD. 

26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, 

To overthrow them in the wilderness : 

27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, 

And' to scatter them in the lands. 

28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, 

And ate the sacrifices of the dead. 

29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their 

inventions : 
And the plague brake in upon them. 

30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment : 

A nd so the plague was stayed. 

3 1 And that was counted unto him for righteousness, 

Unto all generations for evermore. 

32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, 

So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes ; 

33 Because they provoked his spirit, 

So that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. 



PSALMS. 



34 They did not destroy the nations, 

Concerning whom the Lord commanded them : 

35 But were mingled among the heathen, 

A nd learned their works. 

36 And they served their idols : 

Which were a snare unto them. 

37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters 

unto devils, 

38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their 

sons and of their daughters, 

Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : 

And the land was polluted with blood. 

39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, 

And went a whoring with their own inventions. 

40 Therefore as the wrath of the Lord kindled 

against his people, 
Insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. 

41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; 

And they that hated them ruled over them. 

42 Their enemies also oppressed them, 

And they were brought into subjection under their 
hand. 

43 Many times did he deliver them ; but they pro- 

voked him with their counsel, 
* And were brought low for their iniquity. 

44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, 

When he heard their cry : 

45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and 

repented according to the multitude of 
his mercies. 

46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that 

carried them captives. 



156 PSALMS. 

47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from 

among the heathen, 

To give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph 
in thy praise. 

48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from ever- 

lasting to everlasting : 
And let all the people say, Amen. 
Praise ye the Lord, 



Psalm CVII. 

GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, 

Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the 

enemy ; 

3 And gathered them out of the lands, 

From the east, and from ihe west ^ from the north, 
and from the south. 

4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a solitary 

way ; 

They found no city to dwell in. 

5 Hungry and thirsty, 

Their soul fainted in them. 

6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, 

And he delivered them out of their distresses. 

7 And he led them forth by the right way, 

That they might go to a city of habitation. 

8 O that men would praise the LORD for his 

goodness, 

And for his wonderful works to the children of 
men / 



PSALMS. 



157 



9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, 

And fillet h the hungry soul with goodness. 

10 Such as sit in darkness and the shadow of death. 

Being bound in affliction and iron ; 

11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, 

And contemned the counsel of the Most High : 

12 Therefore he brought down their heart with 

labor ; 

They fell down, and there was none to help. 

13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, 

And he saved them out of their distresses. 

14 He brought them out of darkness, and the shadow 

of death, 
And brake their bands in sunder \ 

15 O that men would praise the Lord for his 

goodness, 

And for his wonderful works to the children of 
men ! 

16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, 

And cut the bars of iron in sunder. 

17 Fools, because of their transgression, 

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 

18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; 

And they draw near unto the gates of death. 

19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, 

And he saveth them out of their distresses. 

20 He sent his word, and healed them, 

And delivered them from their destructions. 

21 O that men would praise the Lord for his 

goodness, 

And for his wonderful works to the children of 
men ! 



158 



PSALMS. 



22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanks- 

giving, 

And declare his works with rejoicing. 

23 They that go down to the sea in ships. 

That do business in great waters ; 

24 These see the works of the Lord, 

And his wonders in the deep. 

25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy 

wind, 

Which lifteth up the waves thereof. 

26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down 

again to the depths ; 
Their soul is melted because of trouble. 

27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken 

man, 

And are at their wit's end. 

28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, 

And he bringeth them out of their distresses. 

29 He maketh the storm a calm, 

So that the waves thereof are still. 

30 Then are they glad because they be quiet ; 

So he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 

31 O that men would praise the Lord for his 

goodness, 

And for his wonderful works to the children of 
men ! 

32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of 

the people, 
And praise him to the assembly of the elders. 

33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, 

And the watersprings into dry ground ; 

34 A fruitful land into barrenness, 

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 



PSALMS 



T 59 



35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, 

And the dry ground into water springs, 

36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, 

That they may prepare a city for habitation ; 

37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, 

Which may yield fruits of increase. 

38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multi- 

plied greatly ; 
And suffer eth not their cattle to decrease, 
3g Again, they are minished and brought low, 
Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 

40 He poureth contempt upon princes, 

And causeth them to wander in the wilderness, 
where tJiere is no way. 

41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, 

And viaketh him families like a flock. 
A2 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: 

And all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, 

Even they shall understand the loving kindness of 
the Lord. 



Psalm CVIII. 
GOD, my heart is fixed ; 

/ will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 

2 Awake, psaltery and harp : 

/ myself will awake early. 

3 T will praise thee, O LORD, among the people : 

And I will sing praises unto thee among the 
nations. 

4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens ; 

A nd thy truth reacheth unto ilie clouds. 



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PSALMS. 



5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens : 

And thy glory above all the earth ; 

6 That thy beloved may be delivered : 

Save with thy right hand, and answer me. 

7 God hath spoken in his holiness ; 

I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out 
the valley of Sue cot h. 

8 Gilead is mine ; Manasseh is mine ; 

Ephraim also is the strength of mine head ; Jndah 
is my lawgiver; 

9 Moab is my washpot ; over Edom will I cast out 

my shoe ; 
Over Philistia will I triumph. 

10 Who will bring me into the strong city ? 

Who will lead me into Edom ? 

11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? 

And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our 
hosts ? 

12 Give us help from trouble: 

For vain is the help of man. 

13 Through God we shall do valiantly: 

For he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 



Psalm CIX. 

[ T OLD not thy peace, O God of my praise ; 

2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth 

of the deceitful are opened against me : 
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 
3 They compassed me about also with words 
of hatred ; 
A nd fought against me ivithout a cause. 



PSALMS. 



161 



4 For my love they are my adversaries . 

But I give myself unto prayer. 

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, 

And hatred for my love. 

6 Set thou a wicked man over him : 

And let Satan stand at his right hand. 

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned : 

And let his prayer become sin. 

8 Let his days be few ; 

And let another take his office. 

9 Let his children be fatherless, 

And his wife a widow. 

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and 

beg: 

Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate 
places. 

1 1 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath ; 

And let the strangers spoil his labor. 

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: 

Neither let there be any to favor his fatherless 
children. 

13 Let his posterity be cut off; 

A nd in the generation following let their name be 
blotted out. 

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered 

with the LORD ; 
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 

15 Let them be before the LORD continually, 

That he may cut off the memory of them from 
the earth. 

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, 

but persecuted the poor and needy man, 

That he might even slay the broken in heart. 



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PSALMS. 



17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him : 

As he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far 
from him. 

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with 

his garment, 
So let it come into his bowels like water, and like 
oil into his bones. 

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth 

him, 

And for a girdle wherewith he is girded con- 
tinually. 

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from 

the Lord, 

And of them that speak evil against my soul. 

21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy 

name's sake : 
Because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. 

22 For I am poor and needy, 

And my heart is wounded zvithin me. 

23 I am gone like the shadow when irdeclineth : 

/ am tossed up and down as the locust. 

24 My knees are weak through fasting ; 

And my flesh faileth of fatness. 

25 I became also a reproach unto them: 

When they looked upon me they shaked their 
heads. 

26 Help me, O Lord my God : 

O save me according to thy mercy : 

27 That they may know that this is thy hand ; 

That thou, Lord, hast done it. 

28 Let them curse, but bless thou : when they arise, 

let them be ashamed ; 

But let thy servant rejoice. 



PSALMS. 



163 



29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame ; 

And let them cover themselves with their own 
confusion, as with a mantle. 

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth ; 

Yea, I will praise him among the multitude. 

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, 

To save him from those that condemn his souL 



Psalm CX. 

'THE LORD said unto my LORD, Sit thou at my 
right hand, 

Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 

2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out 

of Zion : 

Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy 

power, 

In the beauties of holiness from the womb of the 
morning : 
Thou hast the dew of thy youth. 

4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, 
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of 

Melchizedek. 

5 The LORD at thy right hand shall strike through 

kings in the day of his wrath, 

6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill 

the places with the dead bodies ; 
He shall wound the heads over many countries* 

7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: 

Therefore shall he lift up the head. 



164 PSALMS. 

Psalm CXL 

T) RAISE ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord 
with my whole heart, 
In the assembly of the upright and in the con- 
gregation. 

2 The works of the LORD are great, 

Sought out of all them that have pleasure 
therein. 

3 His work is honorable and glorious : 

And his righteousness endureth for ever. 

4 He hath made his wonderful works to be 

remembered : 
The LORD is gracious and full of compassion. 

5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him : 

He will ever be mindful of his covenant. 

6 He hath shewed his people the power of his 

works, 

That he may give them the heritage of the 
heathen. 

7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment ;. 

All his commandments are sure. 

8 They stand fast for ever and ever, 

And are done in truth and uprightness. 

9 He sent redemption unto his people : he hath 

commanded his covenant for ever : 
Holy and reverend is his name. 
IO The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : 
A good understanding have all they that do his 
commandments : 
Hts praise endureth for ever. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm CXII. 

T) RAISE ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that 
feareth the Lord, 
That de light eth greatly in his commandments. 

2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth : 

The generation of the upright shall be blessed. 

3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house : 

And his righteousness endtireth for ever. 

4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the 

darkness : 

He is gracious, and full of compassion, and 
righteous. 

5 A good man sheweth favor, and lendeth ; 

He will guide his affairs with discretion. 

6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever : 

The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 

7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : 

His heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. 

8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, 

Until he see his desire upon his enemies. 

9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor : 

His righteousness endureth for ever ; 
His horn shall be exalted with honor. 
io The wicked shall see it, and be grieved ; he shall 
gnash with his teeth, and melt away : 
The desire of the wicked shall perish. 

Psalm CXIII. 

13 RAISE ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of 
the Lord, 

Praise the name of the LORD. 



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PSALMS. 



2 Blessed be the name of the LORD, 

From this time forth and for evermore. 

3 From the rising of the sun, unto the going down 

of the same, 
The Lord's name is to be praised. 

4 The Lord is high above all nations, 

A nd his glory above the heavens. 

5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, 

Who dwclleth on high, 

6 Who humbleth himself to behold 

The things that are in heaven, and in the earth ! 

7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, 

And lifteth the needy out of the dunghill ; 

8 That he may set him with princes, 

Even with the princes of his people. 

9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, 

And to be a joyful mother of children. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



Psalm CXIV. 

lUHEN Israel went out of Egypt, 

The house of Jacob from a people of strange 
language ; 
2 Judah was his sanctuary, 
And Isrcccl his dominion. 
5 The sea s&w it, and fled : 
Jordan was driven back. 

4 The mountains skipped like rams, 

And the little hills like lambs. 

5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou Reddest ? 

Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? 



PSALMS. I O7 

6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams : 

A?id ye little hills, like lambs ? 

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence cf the Lord, 

At the presence of the God of Jacob ; 

8 Which turned the rock into a standing water. 

The flint into a fountain of waters* 



Psalm CXV. 

^JOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy 
name give glory, 
For thy mercy, and for thy truth s sake, 

2 Wherefore should the heathen say, 

Where is now their God? 

3 But our God is in the heavens : 

He hath done whatsoever lie hath pleased* 

4 Their idols are silver and gold, 

The work of men s hands. 

5 They have mouths, but they speak not: 

Eyes have they, but they see not: 
o They have ears, but they hear not : 
Noses have they, but they smell not : 

7 They have hands, but they handle not \ 

Feet have they y but they walk not : neither speak 
they through their throat. 

8 They that make them are like unto them ; 

So is every one that trust etli in them. 

9 O Israel, trust thou in the Lord : 

He is their help and their shield. 
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD : 

He is their help and their shield. 



i68 



PSALMS. 



11 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord : 

He is their kelp and their shield. 

12 The LORD hath been mindful of us : he will bless 

us ; he will bless the house of Israel ; 
He will bless the house of Aaron. 

13 He will bless them that fear the LORD 

Both small and great. 

14 The Lord shall increase you more and more, 

You and your children. 

15 Ye are blessed of the Lord, 

Which made heaven and earth. 

16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: 

But the earth hath he given to the children of 
men. 

17 The dead praise not the Lord, 

Neither any that go down into silence. 

18 But we will bless the Lord, 

From this tune forth, and for evermore. 
Praise the Lord. 

Psalm CXVI. 

T LOVE the Lord, 

Because he hath heard my voice and my 
supplications. 

2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, 

Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 

3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the 

pains of hell gat hold upon me : 
/ found trouble and sorrow. 

4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD ; 

O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 



PSALMS. 169 

5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous : 

Yea, our God is merciful. 

6 The Lord preserveth the simple : 

/ was brought low, and he helped me. 

7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul ; 

For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee 

8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, 

Mine eyes from tears, and my feet from 
falling. 

9 I will walk before the LORD 

In the land of the livi?ig. 

10 I believed, therefore have I spoken : 

I was greatly afflicted : 

1 1 I said in my haste, 

All men are liars. 

12 What shall I render unto the LORD 

For all his benefits toward me ? 

13 I will take the cup of salvation, 

And call upon the name of the LORD. 

14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord , 

Now in the presence of all his people, 

15 Precious in the sight of the Lord 

Is the death of his saints. 

16 O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy 

servant, and the son of thine handmaid : 
Thou hast loosed my bonds. 

17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, 

And will call upon the name of the LORD. 

18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD 

Now in the presence of all his people, 

19 In the courts of the Lord's house, 

In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



PSALMS. 



Psalm CXVII. 

f~\ PRAISE the LORD, all ye nations : 

Praise him y all ye people, 
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us : 
And the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



Psalm CXVIII. 

f~\ GIVE thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : 

Because his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 Let Israel now say, 

That his mercy endureth for ever. 

3 Let the house of Aaron now say, 

That his mercy endureth for ever. 

4 Let them now that fear the Lord say, 

That his mercy endureth for ever. 

5 I called upon the Lord in distress : 

The Lord answered me, and set me in a large 
place. 

6 The LORD is on my side ; I will not fear : 

What can man do unto me ? 

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help 

me : 

Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that 
hate me. 

8 It is better to trust in the Lord 

Than to put confidence in man. 

9 It is better to trust in the Lord 

Than to put confidence in princes. 



PSALMS. 



171 



10 All nations compassed me about : 

But in the name of the LORD will I destroy 
them. 

1 1 They compassed me about ; yea, they compassed 

me about : 

But in the name of the LORD / will destroy them. 

12 They compassed me about like bees; they are 

quenched as the fire of thorns : 
For in the name of the LORD / will destroy them. 

13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: 

But the LORD helped me, 

14 The Lord is my strength and song, 

And is become my salvation. 

15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the 

tabernacles of the righteous : 
The right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. 

16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted : 

The right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. 

17 I shall not die, but live, 

And declare the works of the LORD. 

18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: 

But he hath not given me over unto death. 

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: 

I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD : 

20 This gate of the LORD, 

Into which the righteous shall enter. 

21 I will praise thee : for thou hast heard me, 

And art become my salvation. 

22 The stone which the builders refused 

Is become the head stone of the corner. 

23 This is the Lord's doing; 

It is marvellous in our eyes. 



172 



PSALMS. 



24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; 

We will rejoice and be glad in it. 

25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord : 

O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 

26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the 

Lord ; 

We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 

27 God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light : 

Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns 
of the altar. 

28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee : 

Thou art my God, I zvill exalt thee. 

29 O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psalm CXIX. 

ALE PH. 

DLESSED are the undefiled in the way, 
Who walk in the law of the Lord. 

2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies? 

And that seek him with the whole heart. 

3 They also do no iniquity : 

They walk in his ways. 

4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts 

diligently, 

5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy 

statutes ! 

6 Then shall I not be ashamed, 

When I have respect unto all thy commandments. 

7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, 

When I shall have learned thy righteous judg- 
ments. 



PSALMS. 



173 



8 I will keep thy statutes : 

0 forsake me not utterly, 

BETH. 

9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? 

By taking heed thereto accordifig to thy worcl, 

10 With my whole heart have I sought thee : 

O let me ?iot wander from thy commamdments. 

1 1 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, 

That I might ?wt sin against thee, 

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: 

Teach me thy statutes, 

13 With my lips have I declared 

All the judgments of thy mouth, 

14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, 

As much as in all riches, 

1 5 I will meditate in thy precepts, 

And have respect unto thy ways. 

16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: 

/ will not forget thy word. 

GIMEL. 

17 Deal bountifully with thy servant; 

That I may live, and keep thy word, 

18 Open thou mine eyes, 

That I may behold wondrous tilings out of thy 
law, 

19 I am a stranger in the earth : 

Hide ?wt thy co7nma?idments from me, 

20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath 

Unto thy judgments at all times, 

21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, 

Which do err from thy commandments. 



174 



PSALMS 



22 Remove from me reproach and contempt ; 

For I have kept thy testimonies, 

23 Princes also did sit and speak against me : 

But thy servants did meditate in thy statutes. 

24 Thy testimonies also are my delight, 

And my counsellors. 

DALETH. 

25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust : 

Quicken thou me according to thy word. 

26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me : 

Teach me thy statutes, 

27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts : 

So shall I talk of thy wo?idrous works. 

28 My soul melteth for heaviness : 

Strengthen thou me accordifig unto thy word. 

29 Remove from me the way of lying : 

And grant me thy law graciously. 

30 I have chosen the way of truth : 

Thy judgments have I laid before me. 

31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: 

0 LORD, put me not to shame. 

32 I will run the way of thy commandments, 

When thou shalt enlarge my heart. 

HE. 

33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes ; 

And I shall keep it tinto the end. 

34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law ; 

Ye a j I shall observe it with my whole heart. 

35 Make me to go in the path of thy command- 

ments ; 
For therein do I delight. 



PSALMS. 



175 



36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, 

And not to covetousness. 

37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity ; 

And quicken thou me in thy way. 

38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, 

Who is devoted to thy fear. 

39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: 

For thy judgments are good. 

40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts : 

Quicken me in thy righteousness. 



VAU. 

41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, 

Even thy salvation, according to thy word. 

42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that 

reproacheth me : 
For I trust in thy word. 

43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of 

my mouth ; 
For I have hoped in thy judgments. 

44 So shall I keep thy law continually 

For ever and ever. 

45 And I will walk at liberty : 

For I seek thy precepts. 

46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, 

And will not be ashamed* 

47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, 

Which I have loved. 

48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy com- 

mandments, which I have loved ; 
And I will meditate in thy statutes. 



176 



PSALMS. 



ZAIN. 

49 Remember the word unto thy servant, 

Upon which thou hasi caused me to hope. 

50 This is my comfort in my affliction : 

For thy word hath quickened me. 

5 1 The proud have had me greatly in derision : 

Yet have I not declined from thy law. 

52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord ; 

And have comforted myself. 

53 Horror hath taken hold upon me 

Because of the wicked that forsake thy law. 

54 Thy statutes have been my songs 

In the house of my pilgrimage. 

55 I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the 

night, 
And have kept thy law. 

56 This I had, 

Because I kept thy precepts. 

CHETH. 

57 Thou art my portion, O LORD : 

/ have said that I would keep thy words. 

58 I entreated thy favor with my whole heart : 

Be merciful unto me according to thy word. 

59 I thought on my ways, 

And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 

60 I made haste, 

And delayed not to keep thy commandments. 

61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me : 

But I have not forgotten thy lazv. 

62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee, 

Because of thy righteous judgments. 



PSALMS. 



177 



63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee^ 

And of them that keep thy precepts. 

64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: 

Teach me thy statutes. 

TETH. 

65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord. 

According unto thy word. 

66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : 

For I have believed thy commandments. 

67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: 

But ?ww have I kept thy word. 

68 Thou art good, and doest good ; 

Teach me thy statutes. 

69 The proud have forged a lie against me : 

But I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 

70 Their heart is as fat as grease : 

But I delight in thy law. 

71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; 

That I might learn thy statutes. 

72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me 

Than thousands of gold and silver. 

JOD. 

73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me : 

Give me understanding, that I may learn thy 
commandments. 

74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see 

me; 

Because I have hoped in thy word. 

75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right. 

And that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. 



t 7 8 



PSALMS. 



76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my 

comfort, 

According to thy word unto thy servant, 

77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I 

may live : 
For thy law is my delight. 

78 Let the proud be ashamed ; for they dealt per- 

versely with me without a cause : 
But I will meditate i?i thy precepts. 

79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, 

And those that have knozvn thy testimonies. 

80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes ; 

That I be not ashamed. 
« 

CAPH. 

81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: 

But I hope in thy word. 

82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, 

When wilt thou comfort me? 

83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ; 

Yet do I not forget thy statutes. 

84 How many are the days of thy servant? 

When wilt thou execute judgment on them that 
persecute me ? 

85 The proud have digged pits for me, 

Which are not after thy law. 

86 All thy commandments are faithful : 

They persecute me wrongfully ; help thou me. 

87 They had almost consumed me upon earth ; 

But I forsook not thy precepts. 

88 Quicken me after thy loving kindness ; 

So shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 



PSALMS. 



179 



LAMED. 

89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. 

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations : 

Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 

91 They continue this day according to thine 

ordinances : 
For all are thy servants. 

92 Unless thy law had been my delights, 

/ should then have perished in mine affliction. 

93 I will never forget thy precepts : 

For with them thou hast quickened me. 

94 I am thine, save me ; 

For I have sought thy precepts. 

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : 

But I will consider thy testimonies. 

96 I have seen an end of all perfection : 

But thy commandment is exceedijig broad. 

MEM. 

97 O how love I thy law ! 

It is my meditation all the day. 

98 Thou, through thy commandments, hast made 

me wiser than mine enemies : 
For they are ever with me. 

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers : 

For thy testimonies are my meditation. 

100 I understand more than the ancients, 

Because I keep thy precepts. 

101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, 

That I might keep thy word. 

102 I have not departed from thy judgments: 

For thou hast taught me. 



I So PSALMS. 

103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! 

Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 

104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: 

Therefore I hate every false way. 

NUN. 

105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, 

And a light unto my path. 

106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, 

That I will keep thy righteous judgments. 

107 I am afflicted very much : 

Quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy zvord. 

108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of 

my mouth, O Lord, 
And teach me thy judgments. 

109 My soul is continually in my hand : 

Yet do I not forget thy law. 

1 10 The wicked have laid a snare for me : 

Yet I erred not from thy precepts. 

1 1 1 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for 

ever : 

For they are the rejoicing of my heart. 

112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy 

statutes always, 

Even unto the end. 

SAMECH. 

113 I hate vain thoughts: 

But thy law do I love. 

1 14 Thou art my hiding place and my shield : 

/ hope in thy word. 

115 Depart from me, ye evil doers * 

For I will keep the commandments of my God. 



PSALMS. 



1S1 



116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may 

live : 

And let me not be ashamed of my hope, 

117 Hold thou me up. and I shall be safe: 

And I will have respect unto thy statutes con- 
tinually. 

118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from 

thy statutes : 
For their deceit is falsehood. 

119 Thou puttest away ail the w r icked of the earth 

like dross : 
Therefore I love thy testimonies. 

120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee ; 

And I am afraid of thy judgments. 

AIX. 

121 I have done judgment and justice: 

Leave me not to mine oppressors. 

122 Be surety for thy servant for good : 

Let not the proud oppress me. 

123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, 

And for the word of thy righteousness. 

124 Deal with thy servant according *unto thy 

mercy, 
And teach me thy statutes. 

125 I am thy servant ; give me understanding, 

That I may know thy testimo?iies. 

126 It is time for thee, Lord, to work : 

For they have made void thy law. 

127 Therefore I love thy commandments above 

gold; 
Yea, above fine gold. 



1 82 PSALMS. 

128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning 

all things to be right ; 

A nd I hate every false way, 

PE. 

129 Thy testimonies are wonderful : 

Therefore doth my soul keep them. 

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light ; 

It giveth understanding unto the simple. 

131 I opened my mouth, and panted : 

For I longed for thy commandments, 

132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me ? 

As thou usest to do unto those that love thy 7iame 

133 Order my steps in thy word : 

And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man : 

So will I keep thy precepts. 

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant ; 

And teach me thy statutes. 

136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, 

Because they keep not thy law. 

TZADDI. 

137 Righteous art thou, O Lord, 

A nd upright are thy judgments. 

138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded 

Are righteous and very faithful. 

139 My zeal hath consumed me, 

Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. 

140 Thy word is very pure : 

Therefore thy servant loveth it. 

141 I am small and despised : 

Yet do not I forget thy precepts. 



PSALMS. 



142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteous- 

ness, 

And thy law is the truth. 

143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me : 

Yet thy commandments are my delights, 

144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is ever- 

lasting : 

• Give me understanding, and I shall live. 

K KOPH. 

145 I cried with my whole heart ; hear me, O LORD : 

/ will keep thy statutes. 

146 I cried unto thee ; save me, 

And I shall keep thy testimonies. 

147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and 

cried : 
I hoped in thy word. 

148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, 

That I might meditate in thy word. 

149 Hear my voice according unto thy loving 

kindness : 

O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment. 

150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: 

They are far from thy law. 

151 Thou art near, O Lord ; 

And all thy commandments are truth. 

152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known 

old 

That thou hast founded tlic?n for ever. 
RESK. 

153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: 

For I do not forget thy law. 



184 PSALMS. 

154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: 

Quicken me according to thy word. 

155 Salvation is far from the wicked: 

For they seek not thy statutes. 

156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD : 

Quicken me according to thy judgments. 

157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies: 

Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.* 

158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; 

Because they kept not thy zvord. 

159 Consider how I love thy precepts: 

Quicken me, O LORD, according to thy loving 
kindness. 

160 Thy word is true from the beginning : 

A?id every one of thy righteous judgments 
enduretli for ever. 

SCHIN. 

161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause : 

But my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 

162 I rejoice at thy word, 

As one that findeth great spoil. 

163 I hate and abhor lying: 

But thy law do I love. 

164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, 

Because of thy righteous judgments. 

165 Great peace have they which love thy law: 

And nothing shall offend them. 

166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, 

A nd done thy commandments. 

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; 

And I love them exceedingly. 



PSALMS. 



168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies : 

For all my ways are before thee. 

TAIL 

169 Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: 

Give 7ne understa?idi?ig according to thy word. 

170 Let my supplication come before thee : 

Deliver vie accordi?ig to thy word. 

171 My lips shall utter praise, 

When thou hast taught me thy statutes. 

172 My tongue shall speak of thy word : 

For all thy comma?idments are righteousness. 

173 Let thine hand help me ; 

For I have chose?i thy precepts. 

174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord 

And thy law is my delight. 

175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee ; 

And let thy judgments help me. 

176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep : 

Seek thy servant ; for I do ?iot forget thy com- 
mandments. 



Psalm CXX. 

J N my distress I cried unto the Lord, 
A 7id he iieard me. 

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, 

And from a deceitful toitgue. 

3 What shall be given unto thee ? 

Or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue ? 

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, 

With coals of juniper* 



1 86 PSALMS. 

5 Woe is me, that 1 sojourn in Mesech, 

That I dwell in the tents of Kedar ! 

6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth 

peace. 

7 / am for peace : but when I speak, they are for 

war. 

Psalm CXXL 

T WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, 

From whence cometh my help. 

2 My help cometh from the LORD, 

Which made heaven and earth. 

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : 

He that keepeth thee will not slumber. 

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel 

Shall 7ieither slumber nor sleep. 

5 The LORD is thy keeper : 

The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, 

Nor the moon by night. 

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : 

He shall preserve thy soul. 

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy 

coming in, 

From this time forth, and even for evermore. 

Psalm CXXIL 

T WAS glad when they said unto me, 

Let us go into the house of the Lord. 
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jeru- 
salem, 



PSALMS. 



l8 7 



3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact 



4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, 
Unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto 



5 For there are set thrones of judgment, 

The % thrones of the house of David. 

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : 

They shall prosper that love thee. 

7 Peace be within thy walls. 

And prosperity within thy palaces. 

8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, 

I will now say, Peace be within thee. 

9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, 

I will seek thy good. 



[ T NTO thee I lift up mine eyes, 

0 thou that dwellest in the heavens. 
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the 
hand of their masters, 
And as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her 



So our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, 
Until that lie Jiave mercy upon 71s. 

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon 

as : 

For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 

4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning 

of those that are at ease. 

And with the contempt of the proud. 



together : 



the name of the LORD. 



Psalm CXXIIL 




mistress ; 



PSALMS, 



Psalm CXXIV. 

T F it had not been the Lord who was on our side. 
Now may Israel say ; 

2 If it had not been the Lord who was oji our side. 

When men rose up against us : 

3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, 

When their wrath was kindled against us : 

4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, 

The stream had gone over our soul : 

5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 

6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a 

prey to their teeth. 
J Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of 
the fowlers : 
The snare is broken, and we are escaped, 
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who 
made heaven and earth. 



Psalm CXXV. 

HP H EY that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount 
Zion, 

Which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 

2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, 

So the Lokd is round about, his people, from 
henceforth even for ever. 

3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the 

lot of the righteous ; 
Lest the righteous put forth their hands unto 
iniquity. 



PSALMS. 



189 



4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, 

And to them that are upright in their hearts. 

5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, 

The Lord shall lead them forth with the workers 
of iniquity. 
But peace shall be upon Israel. 



HEN the Lord turned again the captivity of 



Zion, 

We were like them that dream. 

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, 

And our tongue with singing: 
Then said they among the heathen, 

The Lord hath done great things for them. 

3 The Lord hath done great things for us ; 

Whereof we are glad. 

4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, 

As the streams in the south. 

5 They that sow in tears 

Shall reap in joy. 

6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, 

Bearing precious seed. 
Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, 
Bringing his sheaves with him. 



XCEPT the Lord build the house, they labor 
in vain that build it : 
Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman 
• waketh but in vain. 



Psalm CXXVI. 




Psalm CXXVII. 



190 



PSALMS. 



2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, 

to eat the bread of sorrows : 

For so he giveth his beloved sleep, 

3 Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD : 

And the fruit of the womb is his reward. 

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; 

So are children of the youth. 

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of 

them : 

They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak 
with the enemies in the gate. 



Psalm CXXVIII. 

|I>LESSED is every one that feareth the Lord ; 
That walketh in his ways. 

2 For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands : 

Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with 

thee 

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides 

of thine house : 
Thy children like olive plants round about thy 
table. 

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed 

That feareth the LORD. 

5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion : 

And thou shalt see the go§d of Jerusalem all the 
days of thy life. 

6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, 

A nd peace upon Israel. # 



PSALMS. 



I 9 I 



Psalm CXXIX. 

1\/TANY a time have they afflicted me from my 
xVi youth, 

May Israel now say : 

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my 

youth : 

Yet they have not prevailed against me. 

3 The ploughers ploughed upon my back * 

They made long their furrows. 

4 The Lord is righteous : 

He hath cut asimder the cords of the wicked, 

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that 

hate Zion. 

6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, 

which withereth afore it groweth up : 

7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand ; 

Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 

8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of 

the Lord be upon you : 
We bless you in the name of the LORD. 



Psalm CXXX. 

/^UT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O 
W Lord. 

2 Lord, hear my voice : let thine ears be attentive 

to the voice of my supplications. 

3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, 

O Lord, who shall stand ? 

4 But there is forgiveness with thee, 

4 That thou may est be feared. 



192 



PSALMS. 



5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, 

And in his word do I hope. 

6 My soul waiteth for the LORD more than they 

that watch for the morning : 
/ say, more than they that watch for the morning. 

7 Let Israel hope in the Lord : for with the Lord 

there is mercy, 
And with him is plenteous redemption. 

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his 

INIQUITIES. 



Psalm CXXXI. 

T ORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes 
^ lofty : 

Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or 
in things too high for me. 

2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a 

child that is weaned of his mother : 
My soul is even as a weaned child. 

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from hence- 

forth AND FOR EVER. 



Psalm CXXXIL 

T ORD, remember David, 

^ And all his afflictions : 

2 How he sware unto the LORD, 

And vowed unto the miglity God of Jacob ; 

3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my 

house, 
Nor go up into my bed ; 



PSALMS. 



*93 



4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, 

Or slumber to mine eyelids, 

5 Until I find out a place for the Lord,, 

A habitation for the mighty God of Jacob* 

6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah : 

We found it in the fields of the wood, 

7 We will go into his tabernacles: 

We will worship at his footstool. 

8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; 

Thou r and the ark of thy strength. 

9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness ; 

And let thy saints shout for joy. 

10 For thy servant David's sake 

Turn not away the face of thine anointed. 

11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he 

will not turn from, it ; 
Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 

12 If thy children will keep my covenant, and my 

testimony that I shall teach them, 
Their children shall also sit upon thy throne for 
evermore. 

13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion ; 

He hath desired, it for his habitation. 

14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; 

For I have desired it. 

15 I will abundantly bless her provision: 

/ will satisfy her poor with bread. 

16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: 

A. no 7 her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 

1J There will I make the horn of David to bud: 
/ have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. 

l3 His enemies will I clothe with shame: 

Bui upon himself shall his crown flourish. 



194 



PSALMS. 



Psalm CXXXIIL 

DEHOLD, how good and how pleasant it is 
For brethren to dwell togetlier in unity. 

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, 

that ran down upon the beard, even 
Aaron's beard : 
That went down to the skirts of his garments ; 

3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that 

descended upon the mountains of Zion : 
For there the LORD commanded the blessing, even 
life for evermore. 



Psalm CXXXIV. 

T3EH0LD, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of 
the Lord, 

Which by night stand in the house of the Lord 

2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, 

And bless the Lord. 

3 The LORD, that made heaven and earth, 

Bless thee out of Zion. 



Psalm CXXXV, 

F) RAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of 
£ the Lord ; 

Praise him, O ye servants of the LORD. 

2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, 

In the courts of the home of our God, 

3 Praise the Lord ; for the Lord is good: 

Sing praises unto his name ; for it is pleasant. 



PSALMS. 



195 



4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, 

A?id Israel for his peculiar treasure. 

5 For I know that the LORD is great, 

And that our Lord is above all gods. 

6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in 

heaven, and in earth, 
In the seas, and all deep places. 

7 He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends 

of the earth : he maketh lightnings for 
the rain : 

He bringeth the wind out of his treasuries 

8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, 

Both of man and beast, 

9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of 

thee, O Egypt, 
Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. 

10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings ; 

11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of 

Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan : 

12 And gave their land for a heritage; 

A heritage unto Israel his people. 

13 Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; 

And thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all 
generations. 

14 For the Lord will judge his people, 

And he will repe?it himself concerning his 
servants. 

15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, 

The work of 'men *s hands. 

16 They have mouths, but they speak not ; 

Eyes have they, but they see not ; 

17 They have ears, but they hear not ; 

Neither is there any breath in their mouths. 



1 96 PSALMS. 

18 They that make them are like unto them : 

So is every one that trusteth in them. 

19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel : 

Bless the Lord, O house of Aaron : 

20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi ; 

Ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord, 

21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, 

Which dweiieth at Jerusalem. 
Praise ye the Lord. 

Psalm CXXXVI. 

C\ GIVE thanks unto the LORD ; for he is good : 

For his mercy endure tJi for ever. 

2 O give thanks unto the God of gods : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

4 To him who alone doeth great wonders : 

For Ins mercy endureth for ever. 

5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens : 

For liis mercy endureth for ever. 

6 To him that stretched out the earth above the 

waters : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

7 To him that made great lights: 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

8 The sun to rule by day : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

9 The moon and stars to rule by night : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 
10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn : 
For his mercy endureth for ever : 



PSALMS. 



I 9 7 



11 And brought out Israel from among them: 

For his mercy endnreth for ever : 

12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out 

arm : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

13 To him which divided the Red Sea into parts : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

14 And made Israel to pass through the midst 

of it: 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red 

Sea : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

16 To him which led his people through the wilder- 

ness : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

17 To him which smote great kings : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

18 And slew famous kings : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

19 Sihon, king of the Amorites : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

20 And Og, the king of Bashan : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

21 And gave their land for a heritage: 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

22 Even a heritage unto Israel his servant : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

23 Who remembered us in our low estate : 

For his mercy endureth for ever : 

24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 



PSALMS. 



25 Who giveth food to all flesh: 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven : 

For his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psalm CXXXVIL 

13 Y the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, 

Yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the 

midst thereof. 

3 For there they that carried us away captive 

required of us a song; 
And they that wasted us required of us mirth, 
Saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 

4 How shall we sing the Lord's song 

In a strange land ? 

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, 

Let my right hand forget her cunning. 

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave 

to the roof of my mouth ; 
If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. 

7 Reftiember, O LORD, the children of Edom in 

the day of Jerusalem ; 
Who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation 
thereof. 

8 O daughter of Baoylon, who art to be destroyed ; 

Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou 
hast served us. 

9 Happy shall he be, 

That taketh and dasheth thy little ones against 
the stones. 



PSALMS. 



I 99 



Psalm CXXXVIII. 

T WILL praise thee with my whole heart : 

Before the gods will I sing praise unto thee, 

2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, 

A nd praise thy name, 
For thy loving kindness and for thy truth : 

For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy 
name. 

3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, 

And strengthenedst me with strength in my soul, 

4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O 

Lord, 

When they hear the words of thy mouth. 

5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord : 

For great is the glory of the Lord. 

6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect 

unto the lowly : 
But the proud he knoiveth afar off. 

7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt 

revive me : 

Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the 
wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand 
shall save me. 

8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth 

me : thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for 
ever : 

Forsake not the works of thine own hands. 



200 



PSALMS. 



Psalm CXXXIX. 



f~\ LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine 
uprising; 

Thou understandest my thought afar off. 

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, 

And art acquainted with all my ways. 

4 For there is not a word in my tongue, 

But lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 

5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, 

And laid thine hand upon me. 

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me ; 

It is high, I cannot attain unto it. 

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? 

Or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? 

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : 

If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 

9 If I take the wings of the morning, 

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; 

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, 

And thy right hand shall hold me. 

11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me ; 

Even the night shall be light about me. 

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the 

night shineth as the day : 
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 

13 For thou hast possessed my reins : 

Thou hast covered me in my mother s womb. 

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonder- 

fully made : 

Marvellous are thy works ; and that my soul 




knozveth right well. 



PSALMS. 



201 



15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was 

made in secret, 

And curiously wrong] it in the lowest parts of the 
earth. 

16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being 

imperfect ; 

And in thy book all my members were written, 
Which in continuance were fashioned, 
When as yet there was none of them. 

17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O 

God! 

How great is the sum of them ! 

18 If I should count them, they are more in number 

than the sand : 
When I awake, I am still with thee. 

19 Surely thou ^ilt slay the wicked, O God ! 

Depart from me, therefore, ye bloody men. 

20 For they speak against thee wickedly, 

And thine enemies take thy name in vain. 

21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? 

And am not I grieved with those that rise up 
against thee ? 

22 I hate them with perfect hatred : 

/ count them mine enemies. 

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart : 

Try me and know my thoughts ; 

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, 

A nd lead me in the nvay everlasting. 



202 



PSALMS. 



Psalm CXL. 



|~^ELIVER me, O Lord, from the evil man: 

Preserve me from the violent man ; 

2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart ; 

Continually are they gathered together for war. 

3 They nave sharpened their tongues like a 

serpent ; 
Adders poison is under their lips. 

4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the 

wicked ; preserve me from the violent 
man ; 

Who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 

5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords ; 

They have spread a net by the way side ; they 



5 I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God : 
Hear the voice of my supplications^ O Lord. 

7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, 

Thou hast covered my lie ad in the day of battle. 

8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked : 

Further not his wicked device ; lest they exalt 



9 As for the head of those that compass me about, 
Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 

10 Let burning coals fall upon them : let them be 

cast into the fire ; 
Into deep pits, that they rise not up again. 

11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the 

earth : 

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow 




have set gins for me. 



themselves. 



him. 



PSALMS. 203 

12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of 

the afflicted, 
And the right of the poor. 

13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy 

name : 

The upright shall dwell in thy presence. 

Psalm CXLL 

ORD, I cry unto thee : make haste unto me; 

Give ear tinto my voice, when I cry mito thee. 

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee 

incense ; 

And the lifting up of my hands as the evening 
sacrifice. 

3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; 

Keep the door of my lips. 

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, 

To practise wicked works with men that work 
iniquity : 

And let me not eat of their dainties. 

5 Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness ; 
And let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent- 
oil, which shall not break my head : 

For yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities, 

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, 

they shall hear my words * 
For tltey are sweet. 

7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, 

As when one ciMeth and cleave th wood upon the 
earth. 



204 



PSALMS. 



8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord : 

in thee is my trust ; 
Leave not my soul destitute, 

9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid 

for me, 

And tlie gins of the workers of iniquity. 

io Let the wicked fall into their own nets, 
Whilst that I withal escape. 



Psalm CXLII. 

r CRIED unta the Lord with my voice ; 

With my voice unto the Lord did I make my 
supplication. 

2 I poured out my complaint before him ; 

/ shewed before him my trouble. 

3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, 

then thou knewest my path. 
In the way wherein I walked have they privily 
laid a snare for me. 

4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but 

there was no man that would know me : 
Refuge failed me ; no man cared for my soul. 

5 I cried unto thee, O LORD : I said, Thou art my 

refuge, 

And my portion in the land of the living. 

6 Attend unto my cry ; 

For I am brought very low : 
Deliver me from my persecutors-, 
For they are stronger than L 



PSALMS, 



205 



7 Bring my soul out of prison, 

That I may praise thy name : 
The righteous shall compass me about ; 
For thou shalt deal bountifully with me. 



Psalm CXLIII. 

TT EAR my prayer, O Lord ; give ear to my 
supplications : 
In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy 
righteousness. 

2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant : 

For in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 

3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul ; 

He hath smitten my life down to the ground ; 
He hath made me to dwell in darkness, 
As those that have been long dead. 

4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me ; 

My heart within me is desolate. 
. 5 I remember the days of old ; I meditate on all 
thy works ; 
I muse on the work of thy hands. 

6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee : 

My sotd thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. 

7 Hear me speedily, 0 LORD ; my spirit faileth : 

Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto 
them that go down into the pit. 

8 Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the 

morning ; 
For in thee do I trust : 
Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk ; 
For I lift up my soul unto thee. 



206 



PSALMS. 



9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies : 

/ flee unto thee to hide me. 

10 Teach me to do thy will ; for thou art my God : 

Thy Spirit is good ; lead me into the land of 
uprightness* 

1 1 Quicken me, 0 Lord, for thy name's sake : 

For thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of 
trouble. 

12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, 

And destroy all them that afflict 7ny soul : 
FOR I AM THY SERVANT. 

Psalm CXLIV. 

"DLESSED be the Lord my strength, 

Which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers 
to fight. 

2 My goodness, and my fortress ; 

My high tower, and my deliverer) 
My shield, and he in whom I trust : 
Who subdueth my people under me. 

3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge 

of him ! 

Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 

4 Man is like to vanity : 

His days are as a shadow that passeth away. 

5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down : 

Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them : 

Shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 

7 Send thine hand from above ; rid me, and deliver 

me out of great waters, 
From the hand of strange children ; 



PSALMS. 



207 



8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, 

And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God : 

Upon a psaltery, and an instrument of ten strings ; 
will I sing praises unto thee. 

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings : 

Who deliver eth David his servant from the hurt- 
ful sword. 

1 1 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange 

children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, 
And their right hand is a right hand of false- 
hood : 

» 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their 
youth ; 

That our daughters may be as corner stones, 
polished after the similitude of a palace ; 

13 That our garners may be full, affording all 

manner of store ; 
That our sheep may bring forth thousands and 
ten thousands in our streets : 

14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that 

there be no breaking in, nor going out : 
That there be no complaining in our streets. 

1 5 Happy is that people, that is in such a case : 

Yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord, 



Psalm CXLV. 

J WILL extol thee, my God, O king; 

And I will bless thy na,me for ever and ever. 
2 Every day will I bless thee ; 

And I will praise thy name for ever and ever 



208 



PSALMS. 



3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; 

And his greatness is unsearchable, 

4 One generation shall praise thy works to another. 

And shall declare thy mighty acts. 

5 I will-speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty, 

And of thy wondrous works. 

6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible 

acts : 

And I will declare thy greatness : 

j They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy 
great goodness, 
And shall sing of thy righteousness. 

8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion ; 

Slow to anger, and of great mercy. 

9 The LORD is good to all : 

And his tender mercies are over all his works. 

10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord ; 

And thy saints shall bless thee. 

1 1 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, 

And talk of thy power ; 

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty 

acts, 

And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. 

13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 

And thy dominion endureth throughout all 
generations. 

14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, 

And raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 

15 The eyes of all wait upon thee ; 

A nd thou givest than their meat in due season. 

16 Thou openest thine hand, 

And satisfies t the desire of every living thing. 



PSALMS. 2O9 

17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, 

And holy in all his works. 
iS The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon 
him, 

To all that call upon him in truth. 

19 He will fulfil the desire of them chat fear him, 

He also will hear their cry, and zaill save them. 

20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him : 

But all the wicked will lie destroy. 

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : 

And let all flesh bless his holy name^for ever and 
ever. 



Psalm CXLVL 

p RAISE ye the Lord. 

Praise the LORD, O my soul 

2 While I live will I praise the Lord : 

/ will sing praises unto my God while I have any- 
being. 

3 Put not your trust in princes. 

Nor in the son of man. in whom there is no help. 

4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; 

In that very day his thoughts perish. 

5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his 

help. 

Whose hope is in the Lord his God: 

6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all 

that therein is : 
Which keepeth truth for ever. 

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : 

Which giveth food to the hungry. 
The LoRD looseth the prisoners: 



210 



PSALNiS. 



8 The LORD op cite th the eyes of the blind: 
The Lord raise th them that are bowed down : 
The LORD loveth the righteous : 
g The LORD preserveth the strangers : he relieveth 
the fatherless and the widow ; 
But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 
10 The Lord shall reign for ever, 

Even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. 
Praise ye the Lord. 

4 

Psalm CXLVXL 

pRAISE ye the Lord : for it is good to sing 
praises unto our God ; 

For it is pleasant \ and praise is comely. 

2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem : 

He gather eth together the, outcasts of Israel 

3 He healeth the broken in heart 

And bindeth up their wounds. 

4 He telleth the number of the stars ; 

He ccdleth them all by their names. 

5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: 

His understanding is infinite. 

6 The Lord lifteth up the meek : 

He cast eth the wicked down to the ground. 

7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving ; 

Sing praise upon the harp unto our God. 

8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who 

prepareth rain for the earth, 
Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 
g Pie giveth to the beast his food, 

And to the young ravens which cry. 



PSALMS. 



2 11 



10 He deli^hteth not in the strength of the horse: 

He taketk not pleasure in the legs of a man. 

11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, 

In those that hope in his mercy. 

12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem ; 

Praise thy God, O Zion. 

13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates ; 

He hath blessed thy children within thee, 

14 He maketh peace in thy borders, 

And fillet h thee with the finest of the wheat. 

15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: 

His word runneth very swiftly. 

16 He giveth snow like wool : 

He scatter eth the hoar frost like as lies, 

17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: 

Who can stand before his cold ? 

1 8 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them : 

He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters 



19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, 

His statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 

20 He hath not dealt so with any nation : 

And as for his judgments, they have not known 
them. 

Praise ye the Lord. 



p RAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the LORD from 
the heavens : 
Praise him hi the heights. 
2 Praise ye him, all his angels : 
Praise ye him, all his hosts. 



flow. 



Psalm CXLVIII. 




2 12 



PSALMS. 



3 Praise ye him, sun and moon : 

Praise him, all ye stars of light, 

4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens. 

And ye waters that be above the heavens, 

5 Let them praise the name of the Lord : 

For he commanded, and they were created, 

6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever : 

He hath made a decree which shall not pass. 

7 Praise the LORD from the earth, 

Ye dragons, and all deeps : 

8 Fire, and hail ; snow, and vapor ; 

Stormy wind fid filling his word: 

9 Mountains, and all hills ; 

Fruit fid trees y and all cedars : 

10 Beasts, and all cattle;. 

Creeping things, and flying fowl : 

1 1 Kings of the earth, and all people ; 

Princes, and all judges of the earth: 

12 Both young men, and maidens : 

Old men, and children : 

13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his 

name alone is excellent ; 
His glory is above the earth and heaven. 

14 He also exalteth the horn of his people. 

The praise of all his saints ; 
Even of the children of Israel, a people near unto 
him. 

Praise ye the Lord. 



PSALMS. 



213 



Psalm CXLIX. 



RAISE ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a 



new song, 

And his praise in the congregation of saints. 

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him : 

Let the children of Zio7i be joyful in their King. 

3 Let them praise his name in the dance : 

Let them sing praises wito him with the timbrel 



4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people : 

He will beautify the meek with salvation. 

5 Let the saints be joyful in glory : 

Let them sing aloud upon their beds. . 

6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, 

And a two-edged sword in their hand ; 

7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, 

And punishments upon the people ; 

8 To bind their kings with chains, 

And their nobles with fetters of iron ; 

9 To execute upon them the judgment written : 

This honor have all his saints. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



pRAISE ye the Lord. Praise God in his 
sanctuary : 
Praise him in the firmament of his power. 
2 Praise him for his mighty acts : 

Praise him according to his excellent greatness. 




and harp. 



Psalm CL. 



PSALMS. 



3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: 

Praise him with the psaltery and harp. 

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance ; 

Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals : 

Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 

6 Let everything that hath breath praise the 

Lord. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



